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Summer 2015  Promoting Education, Conservation, Research, Plant Collections, Public Service  Volume 43, Number 2
N E W S L E T T E R
N O R T H C A R O L I N A B O T A N I C A L G A R D E N
T H E U N I V E R S I T Y o f N O R T H C A R O L I N A a t C H A P E L H I L L
The North Carolina Botanical Garden held a ceremonial planting of a potentially
blight-resistant American chestnut seedling at Coker Arboretum on Arbor Day.
The chestnut seedling is part of a unique breeding program led by The American
Chestnut Foundation (TACF) to restore the American chestnut to the eastern
forests of America.This tree was once one of the most important trees in the
forests from Maine to Georgia and from the piedmont to the Ohio River Valley.
Chestnut blight, known as the largest ecological disaster of the 20th century,
struck in 1904, and by 1950, four billion trees had been destroyed. TACF hopes
their program of restoring the American chestnut will serve as a template for the
restoration of other species.
Potentially blight-resistant chestnut
planted in Coker Arboretum
June 15―October 3, 2015
The majority of all flowering plants rely on
pollinators, a group of animals that includes over
200,000 species. Our food and natural habitats
rely on these animals, and each of us has an ac-tive
role to play in shaping their future.
The Saving Our Pollinators four-month exhi-bition
features 28 events, including workshops,
exhibits, talks, and tours that highlight the acute
plight of pollinators, including bees, birds, and
butterflies.
Discover the importance of our pollinators
as the Garden illustrates their challenges and
offers solutions to help secure a stable future
for them.
Find program listings on pages 9-12, or
online at www.ncbg.unc.edu/pollinators.
Our new director, Dr. Damon Waitt, joined the
NCBG staff in mid-April. Read his first Newsletter
message on page 2.
Saturday, June 6, 6-10pm
Join us for a spectacular summer evening
garden party with great food, drink,
live music, dancing, and a silent and live
auction to support the Garden’s efforts
in conservation, education, and research.
Tickets available at door:
$125 per person
Tom Saielli, southern regional science coordinator at The American Chestnut Foundation,
discussed the history and ecology of the American chestnut.
2 NCBG Newsletter Summer 2015
means to be a university-affiliated conservation-themed botanical
garden in the 21st century. More to come in the next newsletter.
Meanwhile, there are pumps that need replacing, tractors that
need repair, fires that need to be put out and fires that need to be
started (as in prescribed burns). To respond to these immediate
and often unanticipated needs, we have established a new fund
called the Director’s Fund with lead gifts from myself, Jonathan
Howes, Jim and Delight Allen, and several others. I hope you will
consider renewing your support of the Garden by visiting our
website (ncbg.unc.edu) and making a contribution to this new
fund.
As my old friend the bluebonnet disappeared in my rearview
mirror, I wondered who would welcome me to North Carolina.
The dogwoods and redbuds were in full bloom as I made my way
over the Smokies, arriving in the piedmont just in time to see
trillium, dwarf-crested iris, Atamasco lily and wild indigo put on
a spectacular show. When I arrived at the Garden, North Caro-lina
cousins of Texas phlox, Indian paintbrush and columbine,
introduced themselves, only sporting slightly different names.
Soon thereafter, the maples, oaks, hickories, and other hardwoods
leafed out, drenching everything and everyone in photosynthesis
(and pollen). And now, I am especially enjoying my strange new
carnivorous compadres, the pitcher plants, sundews, and Venus
flytraps.
It has been a glorious first spring in North Carolina, and I look
forward to meeting and working with all of you…in the seasons
to come.
Let me start this,
my first contribution to
the newsletter, by thank-ing
the North Carolina
Botanical Garden, the
Botanical Garden Foun-dation,
the University of
North Carolina, and the
Chapel Hill community
for the warm welcome to
North Carolina. People,
like plants, are sometimes
difficult to transplant, but everyone has been so incredibly nurtur-ing
and supportive that my boots have already started to put down
roots. Coming from Texas, I also thought I knew a little about
Southern hospitality, but y’all have taken it to a whole new level.
Speaking of new levels, in my first week at the Garden, I ad-dressed
the staff at our first staff meeting, the volunteers at the
Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon, the Botanical Garden Foun-dation
at its spring board meeting, the Chapel Hill community
at the 100th birthday celebration for the Sisters of Gimghoul
Road(Barbara Stiles and Bernice Stiles Wade), and the University
community at a wonderful reception hosted by Florence and Jim
Peacock. Together, these groups are the pillars that support and
sustain the North Carolina Botanical Garden. My first message to
them was that we were not going to take the Garden to the next
level. Together, we would determine what the next level is, then
skip that level and take the Garden to a place that redefines what it
by Damon Waitt, NCBG Director
In the Seasons to Come...
D i r e c t o r ’ s M e s s a g e
A Special Thanks…
As only the third director of the North Carolina Botanical Gar-den,
I would like to give special thanks to the people whose shoes
I will endeavor to fill and whose shoulders I hope to stand on;
especially Jonathan Howes, who served as interim director from
January 1, 2015 to April 13, 2015, Dr. Peter White, who served
as director from 1986 to 2015 and Dr. Ritchie Bell, who was the
Garden’s first director, serving from 1961 to 1986. The Garden
is especially grateful to vice provost for academic initiatives, Dr.
Carol Tresolini, and provost James Dean for establishing the
Garden directorship as a full-time position for the first time in
the Garden’s 49-year history.
Indian paintbrush along a path at the North Carolina Botanical Garden
Summer 2015 NCBG Newsletter 3
C o n s i d e r T h i s
Pollination ecology: A long history and a hopeful future
by Johnny Randall, NCBG Director of Conservation Programs
The Saving Our Pollinators exhibit, kicking off June 15, offers
a series of presentations, workshops, field trips, and other activi-ties
that will help provide information needed to help recover and
sustain our forgotten pollinators. We have certainly heard the wake-up
call ushering in a new urgency to ensure pollinator health for both
crops and native plants, but let’s take a moment to see where this
call began, and why it is so important.
Although plant sexuality was not formally recognized until the
late 1600s, pollination studies began at least as early as 1500 BC,
based on evidence from Assyrian bas
reliefs depicting the transfer of pollen
from one date palm to another. It was
not until the “golden age of botany”
in the 1700s, however, that vast plant
exploration and great advances in
the understanding of plant anatomy,
taxonomy, and pollination biology
occurred.
Interest in pollination biology
was clearly boosted in this “golden
age” by Carl Linnaeus’s “sexual system” that used the number
of stamens and the nature of the pistil for plant classification
purposes. But Linnaeus nearly scandalized the study of botany
by his human/plant sexuality comparisons!
During this same period, the scientific study of insect-mediated
pollen transfer took off, led by the German theologist,
Christian Konrad Sprengel. But because of his great interest in
botany and pollination, he was removed as rector at the Spandau
Citadel.
In 1813, Hermann Muller first observed and published on
the narrow foraging range of bees and that they return to the
same plants time-after-time, and occasionally day-after-day. Muller
also correlated bee behavior with flower color, nectar and pollen
contributions to insect diet, and the association of certain insects
with particular plant communities.
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace invigorated the
study of pollination biology after they proposed that changes in
species were the product of natural selection. Darwin wrote sev-eral
books on pollination, but it was his 1862 text – On the various
contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and
on the good effects of intercrossing – that solidified pollination ecology
as a “proper science.”
Through much of the 20th century, pollination studies in
both the crop and biological sciences plodded along only to find
a tremendous swell of interest in the 1970s that continues today.
It’s hard to pick up a plant biology journal nowadays without find-ing
a paper on pollination biology. But within all of the academic
study and amazing discoveries on the nature of plant-pollinator
interactions, an important piece was missing.
This missing piece was identified by Stephen Buchmann and
Gary Paul Nabhan with the publication of The Forgotten Pollinators in
1996, who pointed out that our pollinators are in trouble. Habitat
loss for both plants and their pollinators, rampant ecosystem frag-mentation,
widespread pollution, and
overzealous pesticide use has created
a perfect storm for pollinator decline.
The Xerces Society for Inver-tebrate
Conservation notes that
there are some 4,000 bee species in
the United States and over 25,000
worldwide. Globally, over 85 percent
of flowering plants are pollinated by
insects, and 90 percent of these pol-linators
are bees, followed by butter-flies,
moths, beetles, and flies. Bees are so renowned as pollinators
that they are called “the sparkplugs of agriculture” by agronomists.
So be sure to stop by the Garden and the Allen Education
Center to discover more about our pollinators, their challenges,
and solutions to help secure a stable future for them.
Check out our Pollinator
Garden brochure, available in
the Allen Education Center
or online at
tinyurl.com/pollinatorgarden
Would you like
to know more
about planting for
pollinators?
4 NCBG Newsletter Summer 2015
Here in North Carolina, we often complain about heat and
humidity in the summer months. It is, however, the same warmth
and moisture that gives rise to the spectacular array of summer
wildflowers and shrubs found at the Botanical Garden. But the
blooms are only half the story!
Walk slowly and look closely, and you will see another daz-zling
show―the pollinators. The summer flowers at our botanical
garden attract a tremendous variety of butterflies, moths, bees,
wasps, beetles, and hummingbirds. As these pollinator animals
collect nectar and spread pollen, they assure the season’s crop of
seeds, berries, and nuts.
A mix of species, colors, and shapes of native flowering plants
assures a greater diversity of pollinators. Around our house in
Raleigh, my wife and I have common milkweed, bee-balm, but-terfly
weed, several types of coneflower, cardinal flower, swamp
sunflower, coral honeysuckle, passion-flower, and Joe-pye-weed.
We have no designated “pollinator garden” area; native flower-ing
plants spread throughout the yard. We enjoy the flowers, but
we eagerly welcome the visitors they attract--gaudy swallowtails,
clumsy bumblebees, and magnificent ruby-throated hummingbirds.
No matter where you live, it is possible to have a pollinator
garden. Your “garden” can be just a couple of flowerpots in your
window! If you haven’t already done so, give yourself the gift
of summer. The best selection of North Carolina wildflowers is
available right here at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. You’ll
get two shows―the blooms and the pollinators they attract―for
the price of one.
The Gift of Summer
The Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc. is the 501(c)3 non-profit organization
that holds land for conservation and raises money for the North Carolina Botanical
Garden, a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
B o t a n i c a l G a r d e n F o u n d a t i o n N e w s
2015 Board of Directors
Officers
Tom Earnhardt, President
Missy Rankin, Vice President
Stephen Rich, Treasurer
Greg Fitch, Secretary
Directors
Betsy Bennett
Bob Broad
Sandra Brooks-Mathers
Cotton Bryan
Wanda Bryant
Melissa Cain
Chip Callaway
Becky Cobey
Jan Dean
Robert W. Eaves Jr.
Lysandra Gibbs-Weber
Debbie Hill
Jay Leutze
Harriet Martin
Scottie Neill
Nancy S. Preston
Linda Rimer
Bill Ross
Tom K. Scott
Barbara K. Wendell
John Wilson
Immediate Past President
Anne Lindsey
Honorary Directors
Claire Christopher
Gretchen Cozart
Arthur S. DeBerry
Muriel Easterling
Mary Coker Joslin
Nancy Stronach
Sally Couch Vilas
by Tom Earnhardt, President, Botanical Garden Foundation
Summer 2015 NCBG Newsletter 5
A Developing Garden notes from Charlotte Jones-Roe, Director of Development
and to direct gifts in honor of their 100th
birthday to the Battle Park interns. They
were joined by Sandy Thompson, Randy
and Cathy Lambe, the Gimghoul Neigh-borhood,
Arthur and Migon DeBerry,
Jan and Jim Dean, and others. Jonathan
Howes gave in the Sisters’ honor and said we could count on
him to make up the difference in the amount still needed for the
$5,500 internship, allowing our new Battle Park manager, Nick
Adams, to hire the interns he needs to care for our beautiful
campus forest. The partially-funded Martha Decker DeBerry
endowment produces some revenue for the Coker Arboretum
summer internship, but we were still a long way from having
enough to fund a full-time, four-month intern this summer.
David Robert, a daily visitor to Coker Arboretum and owner
of the Dead Mule Club on Franklin Street, offered to host a
fundraiser. We are grateful for MedDeli, 411 West, Carolina
Brewery, Wine Without Borders, Country Vintners, and
others for the delicious fare, and to “Mebanesville” for musical
entertainment for our crowd of Arboretum friends. Checks con-tinue
to arrive in response to curator Margo MacIntyre’s letter.
We may not need to take Dave up on his invitation for next year
– but we might, just for the fun of it!
Damon Waitt has already met hundreds of our Garden
volunteers who extend our ability to care for the Garden and
provide important services. He has met University officials who
can help us and has already begun visiting and making friends
with people who support the Garden through their financial
contributions. Dr. Waitt has established a new fund, The Direc-tor’s
Fund, which will be very useful in solving the Garden’s
challenges. Thank you, Damon, for making the first gift, fol-lowed
immediately by gifts from Jonathan Howes, Jim and
Delight Allen, and Sally Vilas and Harry Gooder to make
sure our new director will have resources to accomplish his vi-sion
for the North Carolina Botanical Garden.
We are always grateful for dues and unrestricted gifts that
may be spent “where the need is greatest.” This quarter, we have
received numerous unrestricted gifts that have made a big dif-ference.
They include another large distribution from the Julia
E. Irwin Charitable Lead Annuity Trust, and gifts from Ona
and Peter Pickens, Claire and Hudnall Christopher, Cindy
and Tom Cook, Sandra Henson, C.L. and Nell Morton, Joe
and Tamara Rice, John and Ashley Wilson, Arthur and Mi-gnon
DeBerry, Cathy and Randy Lambe, Gretchen Cozart,
Gwen Silver and The Silver Foundation, Victor Nadler, Van
Womack Daniel, Oliver Orr, Sylvianne Roberge, John and
Ione Coker Lee, Erica and Rene Sanchez, and many others.
The Garden has a new, full-time director! We welcome
Damon Waitt, who brings experience as a botanist, horticultur-ist,
and administrator, as well as the vision and desire to take
the Garden “to a level above the next level!” With a full-time
advocate and problem-solver who seeks to make our Garden
all it can be, the future of the North Carolina Botanical Gar-den
looks bright. We thank Jonathan Howes for his service as
interim director and piloting the Garden through several months
with his wise and caring spirit. We are grateful to have had such
experienced leadership at this time of transition.
Deep cuts to balance the Garden’s budget caught us by sur-prise
this spring, and we found ourselves without funds to hire
summer interns or take care of other basic needs. The students
we had selected needed to know if they had a job, and the long,
hot summer ahead was looking very bleak indeed. Fortunately,
the Garden has a wealth of supportive friends who came to
our rescue in some very creative ways. When Jim and Delight
Allen heard there might be no student interns, they delivered a
check to sponsor an intern for Horticulture on the next busi-ness
day. Cindy Cook, Peg Parker, and others made contribu-tions
toward a second intern to support the Horticulture staff.
Eunice Brock agreed to sponsor one of the interns for Battle
Park this summer, in memory of her daughter Melinda Kellner
Brock. The Sisters of Gimghoul Road, Barbara Stiles and Ber-nice
Wade, decided to make generous contributions themselves
cont’d on page 19 >>
Twin sisters Barbara Stiles and Bernice Wade asked for donations to fund
the Battle Park intern as part of their 100th birthday celebration.
Charlotte Jones-Roe with the Sisters, celebrating 100 years
6 NCBG Newsletter Summer 2015
Each summer and fall, over a hundred undergrads learn the
basics of plant identification and taxonomy from Herbarium di-rector
Dr. Alan Weakley in his Local Flora class. One lab session
is devoted to a tour of the Herbarium. Students discover they
can explore fungi, lichens, mosses, algae, and vascular plants from
around the world simply by opening herbarium cases in Coker
Hall.
Local Flora student Ellie
Kravets (UNC-CH class of 2017)
has now become a volunteer
in the Herbarium, and she has
delved into specimens collected
by Herbert Huntingdon Smith.
Smith and his wife, Amelia “Dai-sy”
Woolworth were all-around
naturalists, collecting insects,
mammals, molluscs, birds, and
plants in Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico,
and the West Indies. Smith’s bo-tanical
specimens collected in
Colombia piqued Ellie Kravets’s
interest, and she has devoted all
of her attention to them.
The UNC Herbarium has
hundreds of specimens that Smith collected in Colombia. All have
minimal information – a typical label is “Plants of Santa Marta,
United States of Colombia Collected by Herbert H. Smith, 1898-
1901,” the plant name, and Smith’s field collection number. In
1910, Herbert and Daisy were jointly offered the directorship of
the Alabama Natural History Museum in Tuscaloosa. The Smith’s
interests were diverse, and Herbert and Daisy were still processing
the plant material he’d collected in Colombia, when Herbert (who
was deaf) was killed by a train as he walked to work at the museum.
This spot, on the University of Alabama campus, was known as
“Smith’s Crossing” for years afterward.1 (Amazingly enough, the
Herbarium has the specimens of another deaf botanist who was
hit by a train―Gerald McCarthy of North Carolina―but that’s
another story.)
“The events concerning the early naming and distribution
of [Herbert H. Smith’s] botanical specimens remain sketchy. The
Carnegie Museum accessioned one set of Smith’s Colombian
plants containing approximately 2500 unidentified specimens.
Smith arranged for most of the plant identifications to be made
H e r b a r i u m R e p o r t
Local Flora, Deaf Botanists, Type Specimens, Colombia, and Trains:
A Typical Day in the Herbarium
by Carol Ann McCormick, Curator, UNC Herbarium
at the New York Botanical Garden by Dr. H. H. Rusby [and the
ferns] by Dr. L. M. Underwood. Specimens sent to New York
for identification by Rusby and Underwood were accompanied
by carefully noted habit, habitat, and locality data, handwritten in
pencil on slips of paper. These slips were subsequently mounted
with the plant material.”2 Alas, the specimens acquired by the UNC
Herbarium lack these handwritten
slips!
Since Smith collected so many
plants that were new to science,
his specimens from Colombia
are type specimens―the botanical
specimens upon which scientific
names are based. In 1988, Dr.
David Boufford (M.S. Botany,
UNC-CH 1976) of the Gray
Herbarium at Harvard University
and Dr. Tina Ayers of the Bailey
Hortorium at Cornell University
compiled a list of Smith’s type
specimens deposited in six her-baria
in the United States, but not
any of Smith’s specimens here in
Chapel Hill. Ellie Kravets used the
Boufford/Ayers list to scour the University of North Carolina
Herbarium, and she found 103 type specimens! She has annotated
each as an “Isotype” and moved them to the special herbarium
case where we keep all our valuable type specimens. They will be
among the first specimens to be imaged and databased for the
virtual herbarium at sernecportal.org. Future projects include
loaning Smith’s specimens to botanists to confirm the identity of
the plants, and comparing our labels to those at other herbaria to
glean more habitat, locality, or date information so these can be
added to the specimens.
Like Herbert and Daisy Smith, Ellie Kravets’s interests in-clude
both the botanical and zoological. Ellie is back home in
New Orleans for the summer, raising Mississippi Sandhill Cranes
(Grus canadensis pulla) at the Audubon Nature Institute’s Species
Survival Center. She has promised to keep well clear of streetcars
and other trains!
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Huntingdon_Smith accessed on
28 April 2015.
2. Ayers, Tina J. and David E. Boufford (1988) Index to the vascular plant
types collected by H. H. Smith near Santa Marta, Colombia. Brittonia 40(4):
400-432.
Herbarium volunteer Ellie Kravets works on specimens collected by
Herbert H. Smith in Columbia circa 1900.
Summer 2015 NCBG Newsletter 7
A G a r d e n e r ’ s J o u r n a l
It’s hard to remember that only four years ago, we were still
moving dirt and just beginning to plant the landscapes associated
with our new buildings. Now the James and Delight Allen Edu-cation
Center stands among abundant, evolving, and maturing
gardens. The trees and shrubs are fill-ing
in, and the perennials are thriving
and blooming. What was once Laurel
Hill Road is now a piedmont habitat
garden abounding with grasses and
wildflowers.
When I was new to the Garden,
I wondered why we had habitat
gardens representing the mountains,
coastal plain, and sandhills but not
the piedmont, the very province in
which we’re located. The answer was
that the nature trail was our piedmont
habitat. It wasn’t a bad answer―the
woods adjacent to the garden are
wonderful and a good example of
our local piedmont forest full of
spring wildflowers, diverse understory
shrubs and lovely beech, oak, and
hickories in the canopy. Nonetheless,
I was always looking for space to put
more piedmont species in the garden,
especially some of the showier, sun-loving
plants that most frequently
persist on roadsides. The opportunity
to have a space dedicated to piedmont plants has been a great step
forward in the way the Garden exposes people to native plants
and conservation gardening, and has made it possible to focus on
native plants on an even more local scale.
Our work to display and conserve southeastern native plants
takes in a fairly broad region with incredible botanical diversity.
In our collections, you can see Florida azalea from the deep south
growing side-by-side with mountain phlox from the Appalachians.
Parts of the piedmont habitat narrow that scope and feature local
biodiversity. Here we have the opportunity to tell a different story
about native plants. In large part, the plants in this collection have
been grown from seed collected nearby. There are beds displaying
roadside plants of Orange, Durham, and Chatham counties, as
well as areas meant to represent our surrounding woods. These
spaces allow us to show off our local flora and how cultivating
these plants can have a tremendous impact on biodiversity by sup-porting
native wildlife from insects all the way up the food chain.
The piedmont habitat contains beds displaying a number of
Discoveries in the Piedmont Habitat
by Chris Liloia, NCBG Habitat Gardens Curator
different ideas. We designed spaces to take advantage of the sun
to display piedmont natives with prairie affinities, and we created
shady spaces with richer soils for woodland beds. There are also
spaces which are more horticultural, showing off some of our
lesser known piedmont species and
advocating for their use as great
garden plants.
All of these new plants and new
themes have led to lots of discover-ies
and horticultural lessons learned.
• We’ve observed that starry ros-inweed
(Silphium asteriscus var. aster-iscus),
grown from seed collected at
the nearby Mason Farm Biological
Reserve, is one of the most remark-able
pollinator plants on site attract-ing
myriad species over the course
of its bloom period.
• We’ve seen that under the right
conditions, fire-pink (Silene virginica)
will seed in with abandon. We start-ed
with a few plants grown from
Chatham County seed. Two years
later, that original planting produced
such an abundance of seedlings that
we were able to spread it around in
the new landscapes. Last year, we re-alized
that we had this plant in such
profusion that we would be able to
collect enough seed to make it our Wildflower of the Year!
• The indian-paintbrush (Castillejja coccinea), a biennial that
must reseed to have a continued presence in the garden,
is now self-sustaining and continues to seed in and bloom
beautifully.
• We introduced three species of sunflower new to the Gar-den.
Now I know which ones spread rapidly by runners. For
the record, Helianthus microcephalus and H. divaricatus are best
employed in areas where space is plentiful.
Four years have given us time to learn about gardening in
our new spaces, time to experiment with new taxa, and time to
work towards collecting seed and growing the species we plan to
incorporate. We’ve come a long way and I look forward to where
we’re going.
Top: Fire-pink (Silene virginica) in abundance in the piedmont habitat.
Bottom: Indian paintbrush (Castillejja coccinea) is now self-sustaining
in the habitat
8 NCBG Newsletter Summer 2015
The end of spring is an interesting time in the Arboretum. The
past couple of months have been visually exhausting. After finally
saying farewell to winter―a party guest who completely outstayed
its welcome, if you ask me―we’ve been rewarded with longer
mornings and pleasant afternoons. Our chores of weeding and
pruning and thinning have slowed a bit, and now we turn to more
robust projects best accomplished when the student population
is less. It’s not like we do not want to share our gardens, quite the
contrary, but it is nice to tackle resurfacing a path without needing
to detour the harried and the hurrying.
So, what’s looking good in the Arboretum? So glad you asked.
The obvious answer would be: Daylilies! But that’s not really a
fitting topic for this newsletter. Instead let’s turn our ever-curious
gaze elsewhere within the garden and explore.
There is a walkway that extends from the back of Davie Hall
down into the Arboretum from the southwest side that is bordered
by a healthy line of southern magnolias (Magnolia grandiflora). Their
ever present shading is a relief as temperatures rise to be sure, but
if you happen to catch sight of the flowers…well, it’s not to be
missed. I grew up in North Carolina and have always been around
this plant, yet I am still bowled over by the enormous, fragrant
cream white flowers.
Near the top of the Magnolia walk, on the other side of the
path is a striking native tree, one of two in the Arboretum. It has
frilly, white flowers that are often overlooked as so many of them
are way over our heads. Find the one or two limbs that are head
height and you’ll be able to enjoy the flowers of the Northern
Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa). The long slender pod-like fruits that fol-low
are held for a good while and will drop in late autumn. The
second of our pair is elsewhere in the garden; I’ll leave it for you
to find.
A bit lower to ground are two excellent shrubs that reliably
show off this time of year. The first is the Oakleaf Hydrangea
(Hydrangea quercifolia). Really, truly, no garden should be without
one. Or seven, if you’ve got the room. They are a first-rate decidu-ous
shrub in this neck of the woods. The flowers are held long
and they dry beautifully. The fall leaf color can be striking as well.
And of course, there’s that textured bark that gives us something
to look at in January.
Second is more of a small tree, though it slowly sends out
suckers to colonize an area, lending a solidly shrubby look to the
plant. The Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora) is a woodland
native that lives at the edge of our Live Oak Lawn under the
shade of red maple (Acer rubrum), live oak (Quercus virginiana), and
deciduous magnolia (Magnolia x soulangiana, not native). The five
parted leaf is striking. The foot-high flower spikes that festoon the
N o t e s f r o m C o k e r A r b o r e t u m
plant this time of year are wonderful. Fall color can be a brilliant
yellow, lighting up an understory.
To be sure, there are many more plants to see this time of
year in the Arboretum. (Prickly pear cactus, Stoke’s aster, tickseed,
gayfeather, coneflower, etc…) June is a great time to come by!
Late spring in the Arboretum
by Geoffrey Neal, Assistant Curator, Coker Arboretum
Clockwise, starting from top left: Southern Magnolia (Magnolia
grandiflora), Northern Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa), Bottlebrush Buckeye
(Aesculus parviflora), Oakleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)
Summer 2015 NCBG Newsletter 9
Education Programs
Registration in online! ncbg.unc.edu/calendar
Summer/Fall 2015
North Carolina Botanical Garden
Butterflies in Colored Pencil
Linda Koffenberger, Professional Artist
Sunday, June 21; 1–4:30pm
This class is an introduction to drawing with
colored pencils, using one of North Carolina’s
many butterflies as reference. Students are given
step-by-step instruction, as well as informa-tion
about our native butterflies. Students can
purchase drawing materials or borrow for the
course. $40 ($35 Members)
Edibles on Paper:
Berries of Summer in Watercolor
Kathy Schermer-Gramm, Professional Artist
Sunday, June 28; 2–5pm
Draw and paint in watercolor some of our bee-pollinated
summer berries. Discover painting the
waxy bloom of a blueberry, creating rich dark
colors for a juicy blackberry, and an introduc-tion
to their pollinator friends. Some watercolor
experience is helpful. Paint and paper included.
$45 ($40 Members)
How to Paint a Cast Shadow
Patricia Savage, Professional Artist
Saturday, July 11; 1–4:30pm
Using different-sized objects and various sur-faces,
students look at how shadows change with
shapes and how shadows are affected by the
surfaces they fall on. $40 ($35 Members)
How to Paint a Flat Wash
Patricia Savage, Professional Artist
Saturday, July 18; 1-4:30pm
Working on pre-stretched watercolor paper,
students will tackle painting a large flat wash.
$40 ($35 Members)
Edibles on Paper:
Tomatoes in Watercolor
Kathy Schermer-Gramm, Professional Artist
Sunday, July 19; 1:30–5pm
Spend this summer getting acquainted with
tomatoes! Instruction includes drawing for accu-racy,
painting wet into wet with saturated color,
followed by dry brush to bring out the details.
Some watercolor knowledge is helpful. Paint and
paper supplied. $38 ($34 Members)
Drawing for People
Who Think They Can’t Draw
Kathy Schermer-Gramm, Professional Artist
Sunday, July 26, 1:30–5pm
This workshop shows students that drawing is
a skill anyone can learn. Students progress from
a blank sheet of paper to a beautiful, finished
drawing. Come try, and discover that yes, you
can draw! $38 ($34 Members)
Beginning Drawing
Kathy Schermer-Gramm, Professional Artist
Saturdays, Aug 1, 8, 15, 22; 1–4:30pm
This is the entry course for the Certificate in
Botanical Illustration and is designed for a broad
audience. Students learn the fundamentals of
illustration through contour drawing, negative
space, perspective, and tone.
$150 ($135 Members)
Introduction to
Botanical Art and Illustration
Linda Koffenberger, Professional Artist
Sunday, Aug 9; 1:30–5pm
This half-day class explores the history of
botanical illustration, shows examples of various
types of botanical illustrations and art, describes
the coursework for the Certificate in Botanical
Illustration, and introduces the instructors. $38
($34 Members)
Impressions in Beeswax
Martha Petty, Professional Artist
Saturday, Aug 15; 10am–4:30 pm
Learn techniques in encaustic painting, painting
with layers of hot beeswax fused together. You
will create six small paintings that will be glued
together to make a larger work of images. We
will also dip various plant materials in beeswax,
iron onto paper, and stain with walnut ink to
make a small pamphlet stitch book. Open to
anyone interested in working with beeswax!
Bring your lunch. $70 ($60 Members), plus $10
materials fee (cash or check) due at class
N a t u r e A r t & I l l u s t r a t i o n
Plant This, Not That for Pollinators
Mary Leonhardi,
Bee Hobbyist and Master Gardener
Sunday, June 28; 2–3pm (Rain date: July 19)
Not all flowering plants are created equal in the
lives of pollinating insects. This workshop will
focus on which plants to add to your garden to
attract bees and butterflies and which are of less
interest to pollinators. Since many pollinator
numbers are diminishing, find out what you can
do to help! Meets at Carolina Campus Commu-nity
Garden. Free, pre-registration required.
Gardening for Pollinators
Elsa Youngsteadt, Margarita López-Uribe,
April Hamblin; NC State Entomology
Saturday, Sept 12; 9:30–11:30am
North Carolina is home to more than 500 spe-cies
of native bees. These beneficial insects are
essential to the maintenance of our gardens
and the environment. More than 85% of all
flowering plants need bees or other pollinators
to help them reproduce and bear fruit. This
workshop will help you recognize some native
bees, understand their relationships with plants,
and learn how to support them with bee-friendly
gardens. Appropriate for novice gardeners, but
has something for everyone—including plants to
take home! $15 ($10 Members)
H o m e G a r d e n i n g
= Native Plant Studies Certificate Program
= Botanical Art & Illustration Certificate Program
= “Saving Our Pollinators” Program
Everyone is welcome in Certificate classes! For more information:
ncbg.unc.edu/certificate-programs
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N a t u r e S t u d i e s
Plant Propagation
Matt Gocke,
NCBG Nursery/Greenhouse Manager
Saturday, June 6; 9:30-11:30am
Learn the fundamentals of vegetative propaga-tion
and techniques for propagating southeast-ern
native plants by means of stem and root
cuttings. Class includes hands-on propagation
and a tour of the vegetative propagation facilities
of NCBG. $30 ($25 Members)
Entomology
Steve Hall, Landscape Ecologist
Sundays, June 7, 14, 21, 28; 1:30–4:30pm
Learn insect family recognition and com-mon
species identification, insect ecology and
conservation, basic life cycle biology, sampling
techniques, and how to improve insect habitat
and conservation in the urban environment.
$125 ($115 Members)
Saving Our Pollinators
Kick-off Lecture
Johnny Randall,
NCBG Director of Conservation Programs
Thursday, June 18; 7–8pm
Join us for a special lecture celebrating National
Pollinator Week and the kickoff of the “Saving
Our Pollinators” exhibition. There is now, more
than ever, the need to better understand the biol-ogy
of insect pollinators for the sake of both
cultivated and native plants. This presentation
covers the scientific study of pollination ecology,
provides guidelines for ensuring pollinator health
in the urban landscape, and offers information
on what we can all do to help our native pollina-tors.
Free, preregistration required.
Summer Flora
Milo Pyne, Plant Ecologist
Saturdays, June 27, July 11, 18, 25;
9:30am–12:30pm
This course is intended for a broad audience, as
well as for students who are enrolled in either
of the Garden’s certificate programs. Field trips
and exercises provide experience in the use of
identification keys and recognition of plants in a
natural setting. $130 ($117 Members)
The Plant Pollinator Partnership and
Special Importance of Bees
Anne Lindsey, Botanist
Sunday, June 28; 3:30–4:30pm
Enjoy a celebration of the extraordinary partner-ship
of flowers and their animal pollinators, a
relationship that has influenced the evolution
of plants and their primary partners―bees, flies,
butterflies and moths, beetles, birds, and mam-mals―
for millions of years. Special attention will
be given to the importance of bees to the suc-cessful
reproduction of their host flowers and
the significance of flowers to the lives of bees.
Free, preregistration required.
BEE-hold the Humble Pollinator!
Exhibit Opening Reception
Sunday, June 28; 4:30–5:30pm
The word “pollen” may make you think “aller-gies,”
but pollination—the movement of plant
pollen from the male part of a flower to the
female part—is essential to life. Without it, there
would be no apples or tomatoes, no almonds or
pecans. Join us for a reception to celebrate the
Garden’s new exhibit, part of the “Saving Our
Pollinators” program, on the role of bees in the
pollination of plants, both wild and cultivated.
Be amazed at the diversity of bees and adap-tations
of flowers to attract their pollinating
assistants. Learn about threats to these essential
pollinators and what you can do to help reduce
these threats and safeguard our bees.
Common Native Bees
Slideshow and Garden Foray
Nancy Adamson,
Pollinator Conservation Specialist
Sunday, July 26; 2:30–4:30pm
Learn about some of the most common bees
pollinating flowers and supporting the great
diversity of our landscapes. In North Carolina,
we have about 500 native species and a few
introduced species, in addition to the European
honey bee. Bumble bees, mason bees, mining
or digger bees, sunflower bees, carpenter bees,
hibiscus bees, and leafcutter bees are all groups
you can easily recognize when you slow down
and take a look. After a slideshow, weather per-mitting,
we will walk in the Garden to see who
inhabits our wonderful native plants. $15 ($10
Members)
Botany
Olivia Lenahan, Horticultural Scientist
Saturdays, Aug 1, 8, 15, 22; 9:15am-2:15pm
This introductory course covers basic principles
of botany, including taxonomy, anatomy, mor-phology,
and physiology. Class time is divided
between lectures and examining/dissecting
samples. There will also be opportunities for
making observations in the gardens.
$195 ($175 Members)
Pollination
Anne Lindsey, Botanist
Saturdays, Aug 29, Sept 12, 19, 26;
9:30am–12:30pm
This course explores the partnership of flower-ing
plants and their animal pollinators. Included
will be a study of attractant systems, breed-ing
biology of the floral partner, aspects of
the biology and behaviors of pollinators, and
importance of pollination to ecosystem health
and human food production. Lectures will be
followed by field observations and lab work.
This course has prerequisites: ncbg.unc.edu/
certificate-programs. $130 ($117 Members)
Native Seed Propagation
Heather Summer,
NCBG Seed Program Coordinator
Saturday, Sept 12; 1:30–4:30pm
Learn seed propagation techniques for native
perennials and woody plants. Topics include seed
collection methods, post-collection handling,
cleaning equipment and techniques, seed storage,
seed sowing techniques, sowing media, cultural
requirements of seedlings, and dormancy re-quirements.
$32 ($29 Members)
Bee Health in an Urban Landscape
Rebecca Irwin, NC State Entomology
Sunday, Sept 13; 2–3pm
We live in an increasingly urbanized world.
This talk will describe how suburbanization of
the landscape has affected bee biodiversity in
Raleigh and Durham, NC, and the pollination
services bees provide to wild growing plants. We
will explore landscape features associated with
the conservation of native bee biodiversity, and
how we can use garden plantings to conserve
bee health and biodiversity.
Free, pre-registration required.
Caterpillarology –
The Study of Pollinator Precursors
Mike Dunn, Naturalist
Sunday, Sept 20; 2:30–4:30pm
Join local naturalist Mike Dunn as he shares
some of the secrets of the lives of local caterpil-lars.
Many species of butterflies and moths are
important pollinators, but, in addition to plants
that provide nectar, they also need host plants
for their caterpillars (many are quite specific)
to complete their life cycle. Learn more about
the fascinating larval stage of these important
pollinators and what plants can attract them to
your property. There will be live specimens to
observe. $15 ($10 Members)
Jenny Elder Fitch Lecture:
Doug Tallamy and Rick Darke
Sunday, Sept 27; 2–4:45pm
See back cover
= “Saving Our Pollinators”
program
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L u n c h b o x T a l k s
Bring your lunch and join us for a free lecture! Pre-registration required.
Sizzling Cities: Native Bee
Communities and Urban Heat
April Hamblin, NC State Entomology
Thursday, June 25; 12–1pm
Bees pollinate most of our flowering plants, in-cluding
many crop species. As urbanization and
climate change continue to increase, it is vital
to understand how these variables influence the
native bee community to predict future changes.
Join us to learn about exciting new research fo-cusing
on how urban heat affects our native bee
communities. Free, pre-registration required.
Pollinator Habitat Restoration in NC
Botanical Garden Nature Preserves
Johnny Randall, NCBG Dir. of Conserv. Prgms
Thursday, July 9; 12–1pm
Former agricultural lands and fire suppressed
woodlands often provide appropriate habitat to
reconstruct the Piedmont savanna ecosystem,
a habitat for important pollinator groups such
as bees, flies, wasps, butterflies, and moths. The
NCBG oversees the conservation and manage-ment
of nearly 1,000 acres of natural areas.
Learn about our restoration activities, such as
monitoring pollinator diversity and abundance,
creating nesting habitat, and using prescribed fire
to help protect and maintain pollinator habitat.
Free, pre-registration required.
Registration is Online!
http://ncbg.unc.edu/calendar/
Click on Calendar & Registration
to enter our secure registration site.
Advance registration is required for all
programs unless otherwise indicated.
H i k e s & T o u r s
Honey Bee Hive Tour
Anne Cabell, Bee Hobbyist
Sunday, June 7; 2–3pm (rain date: June 20)
Come learn about one of the world’s most fasci-nating
insects. Bees are responsible for pollinat-ing
one third of the world’s food and produce
one of the sweetest treats around. Participants
explore a real live honey bee hive with hobbyist
beekeeper, Anne Cabell. Meets at Carolina Cam-pus
Community Garden. Free, pre-registration
required.
Pollinator Garden Tours at
Chatham Mills
Wednesdays, June 10, July 8, Aug 12, and Sept 9;
5:30–6:30pm
Agriculture Extension Agent Debbie Roos will
lead tours of Chatham County Cooperative Ex-tension’s
Pollinator Paradise Demonstration
Garden. Free and open to the public, rain or
shine. Meet on the sidewalk in front of Chatham
Marketplace in Pittsboro. For more information:
growingsmallfarms.ces.ncsu.edu/
growingsmallfarms-gardentours.
Free, no registration required.
Birds and Bees, Flowers and Trees –
Pollinator Hike
Brian Bockhahn, Interpretation & Education
Specialist, NC State Parks
Saturday, Aug 8; 10am–12pm
Enjoy a hike to look for our native pollinators
and learn about the important role they play
in the environment. Through observation and
some live collection, we will learn some basic
identification techniques. The pace of our hike
will be slow, but be prepared for the heat and
bring a hat, sunscreen, drinking water, and may-be
bug spray. Free, pre-registration required.
Butterflies, Science, and You:
Observing Butterflies as a
Citizen Scientist
Christine Goforth, Senior Manager of Citizen
Science, NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Thursday, Aug 20; 12–1pm
Butterflies are some of the most well-known
and best understood insects on the planet, but
there are still gaps in our scientific understanding
of butterflies and the role they play in our envi-ronment.
You can help! By becoming a citizen
scientist, making simple observations of but-terflies,
and reporting what you see online, you
can make valuable contributions to our overall
understanding of butterflies and the important
pollination services they provide. Learn about
the many ways that you can get involved in but-terfly
research and help conserve these beautiful
animals well into the future.
Free, pre-registration required.
Native Plants for Pollinators
Chris Liloia, NCBG Habitat Gardens Curator
Thursday, Sept 3; 12–1pm
Learn about some great native plants that will
help support pollinators in your home land-scape.
This talk focuses on native perennials and
shrubs that provide nectar and pollen through-out
the growing season, host plants for butterfly
and moth caterpillars to feed on, and grasses and
other cover plants to provide habitat. Free, pre-registration
required.
C e r t i f i c a t e P r o grams
Are you interested in gaining greater
knowledge and appreciation of the
native plants of the southeastern
United States? Would you like to
learn how to accurately draw and
paint plants or improve your skills?
The Garden offers adult learners,
from amateurs to professionals,
two unique opportunities to learn
about plants through in-depth
courses taught by dedicated,
expert instructors: Native Plant
Studies and Botanical Art and
Illustration. Both programs culminate in a professional certification. To
learn more and see a full listing of fall semester courses (July – Dec 2015):
ncbg.unc.edu/certificate-programs
Advance registration is
required for all programs
unless otherwise indicated!
ncbg.unc.edu/calendar
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Little Sprouts
ages 3-5 with accompanying adult
Share a morning of discovery with your little
sprout and nurture their natural curiosity for
the living world. Each class includes hands-on
indoor and outdoor activities for you and your
child to learn about plants, animals, and nature.
Play games, take a short hike, make a craft, hear a
story, and more. One adult per child please.
$10 ($8 Members) per child/adult pair
Buzz-y Bees
Saturday, June 20; 10–11am
Hooray for Hummingbirds!
Saturday, July 18; 10–11am
Flower Power
Saturday, Aug 15; 10–11am
Flutter-by Butterfly
Saturday, Sept 19; 10–11am
Fun with Bees
Elsa Youngsteadt, Margarita Lopez-Uribe, April
Hamblin; NC State Entomology
Sunday, June 28; 1:30–3:30pm
Stop by the native bee table to get a glimpse of
North Carolina’s amazing bee diversity. More than
500 species live in our state alone―from bumble
bees to green bees, cuckoo bees to squash bees.
Learn how native bees benefit our gardens and
the environment and how to support them in
your yard. Kids and adults will all find things to
do and see, including games to play and speci-mens
to examine. Each family will get to make
and take home a bee nesting bundle!
Free, no registration required.
Nature Illustration for Kids:
Bees, Blossoms, and Butterflies
ages 8-12
Bob Palmatier, Artist and Naturalist
Saturdays, Sept 26, Oct 3, 10, 17; 1–4pm
Learn to identify and illustrate our local but-terflies
and bees. Students will hone skills in
watercolor, pen and ink, and colored pencil,
using materials and techniques of professional
nature illustrators to compose works of art
that celebrate our pollinators! Each child will
receive an art kit and conclude with two matted
illustrations. $140 ($125 Members), includes
student art kit
Monarch Magic
ages 5-10 with accompanying adult
Saturday, Oct 3; 1–3pm
It’s that magical time of year! Monarch butter-flies
are in the midst of their incredible journey
south to wintering grounds in Mexico. Discover
the amazing life cycle of this colorful insect
with live specimens, learn how to tag butterflies
for citizen science project Monarch Watch,
and find out how you can help bring back the
monarchs! Each child will receive a special plant
to take home. Note: Adult chaperone required.
$15 ($13.50 Members); no fee for accompa-nying
adult
Y o u t h & F a m i l y P r o g r a m s
= “Saving Our Pollinators”
program
Summer Concert with
The Village Band
Sunday, June 21; 3pm
Join us for a summertime concert at the
Garden. Pieces for this performance will
include The Liberty Bell March (J. P. Sousa),
Lincolnshire Posy (Percy Grainger), Galop
(Dmitri Shostakovich), The Eighties (John
Higgins, a medley of pop tunes), and more!
Free, no pre-registration required.
“Bee, I’m Expecting You”
Poetry Reading
Jeffrey Beam, Poet
Sunday, July 19; 3–4pm
Viva la bumble bee! “Bee – I’m Expecting
You” is North Carolina poet Jeffery Beam’s
celebration of the pollinator responsible
for every third bite of food we eat. This
popular reading of bee poems finds Beam
reading from his own Life of the Bee, as well
as poems by numerous poets throughout
history, including Pablo Neruda, Sylvia
Plath, and Virgil. $10 ($8 Members)
Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) blooming in at
the Garden. The North Carolina Botanical Garden
is home to a diverse collection of carnivorous
plants, including flytraps, pitcher plants, and
sundews.
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Notes from the William L. Hunt Archives
by Ken Moore, NCBG Assistant Director Emeritus
Garden benefactor William L. Hunt envisioned a library at
the North Carolina Botanical Garden that would become recog-nized
as a regional resource for the study of botany, horticulture,
landscape design, and garden history.
Among Hunt’s rare book treasures housed at the Garden is
a set of the Botanical Register, issued to subscribers from 1815 to
1847. The full title of this publication is: “The Botanical Register:
consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants cultivated in British
Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment.” This year is
the 200th anniversary of the first volume of this prestigious British
horticultural publication.
Of special note is the inclusion in this first volume of three
perennials native to North Carolina: yellow passionflower, Passiflora
lutea, (introduced into England by Mark Catesby in 1714); spotted
monarda, Monarda punctata (cultivated in England in 1714) and a
former North Carolina Wildflower of the Year, butterfly-weed,
Asclepias tuberosa, (first cultivated in England in 1690 at Hampton
Court).
The text accompanying the beautiful illustration of butterfly-weed
is extensive and practical. One snippet, for example: “Generally
raised from imported seed. Reguires to be placed in a warm, dry, sheltered border of light mould. When its tuberous root has become
large, it does not bear transplanting well.” Oh, how well do we old timers who have tried in vain to relocate a mature specimen of
butterfly-weed know this to be true!!
The 1815 Botanical Register entry for butterfly-weed (Ascelpias tuberosa). The
NC Botanical Garden library archives include the full set of this publication,
among many other treasures.
Healing and Hope Through Science (HHTS), a program of the
North Carolina Botanical Garden, brings hands-on science and nature
activities to kids and teenagers at UNC and Duke Children’s Hospi-tals
and provides activities for pediatric outpatients twice a month at
the Garden. The program’s mission is to empower pediatric patients
with the wonders of nature and science through multi-sensory learn-ing
experiences that promote joy and well-being. HHTS serves over
1600 pediatric patients each year. For more information, please visit:
www.wonderconnection.org
Healing and Hope Through Science
“I really like doing science activities. It’s fun to help my little sister, too.”
―Healing and Hope Through Science student
Help Celebrate
Healing and Hope Through Science
WonderFest 2015
September 26, 2015, 5:30-9:30pm
Bring your friends and family for an evening
of live music, food, and family-friendly science
activities at the NC Botanical Garden!
Save the Date!
DIRECTOR’S FUND
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Jonathan and Mary Howes
James and Delight Allen
Sally Vilas and Harry Gooder
Family of Judy Ransbury
GENERAL SUPPORT
Blisse and Todd Adams
David and Judith Adamson
Frank Adler
Michael Demilt Aitken
Gail and William Alberti
Anne Albright
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Elizabeth and Robert Alston
George Altshuller and
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Christopher Amos and
Julie McCashin
Herbert and Patricia Amyx
Carl and Mary Anderson
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Alex and Rachel Bethune
Bonnie Burch
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Carol and Gary Boos
John Boren
Mark and Linda Borkowski
Patricia Boswell
Blaire Both
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Dilys Bowman and
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Anne and Bill Brashear
Peter Brehm
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Robert and Molly Corbett
Broad
Beth and Gary Broome
Ellen Brown
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Betsy and James Bryan
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Marilyn Butler and
Bob Nichols
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Rosemary Byrnes and
Daniel Stern
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Evelyn and Chip Caldwell
Dolores Campbell
Elizabeth Campbell
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Deborah and George Carter
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Center for Creative Balance
Edward Cerne
Kathryn and Reece Chambers
John and Mary Chandler
Charles Childs and
John Presley
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Claire and Hudnall
Christopher
Louise Clifford
Connie Cohn
Paul and Susan Coleman
Mimi and Walter Collison
Patrick Conley
Orv and Marlene Conner
Linda Convissor
Cindy and Tom Cook
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Kay Cooper
Thomas Cornwell and
Samantha Corte
Lisa Cox
Gretchen Cozart
Jeffrey and Molly Crawford
Mary and Wilson Crawford
Hugh Criswell
Judith and Bill Crow
John and Linda Curtis
Ann Cutter
Jo Ann Czar
Van Womack Daniel III
Lisa Davenport
Patricia Lockwood Davis
Jerry Davis
Arthur and Mignon DeBerry
Alice and Cliff Decker
Sarah J. Deutsch
Martha L. Diehl
Dana and Ken Dockser
Betsy Donovan
Kathy Doyle and
James Graves
Almond and Lori Drake
Barbara and Thomas Driscoll
Helen Drivas and
Thomas O’Neal
Bonnie and Joseph Drust
Jeanne P. Duggan
Jane Coker Dunlap
Frances and Wayne Edwards
Heath and Susannah Efird
Mark Ellenbogen
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Shauna and Thomas Farmer
Peggie Fedderson
Jennifer Feldman and
Benjamin Landman
Gordon Ferguson and
Bobbi Owen
Sheila Ferguson
Marty Finkel
Page and Joyce Fisher
Greg Fitch and John Sweet
John Florin
Milton and Nina Forsyth
Jean and James Coker Fort
Gene Foster
Elizabeth Fox and
Michael Riley
Diane Frazier
Nancy Robison Frazier
Constance and David
Freeman
Carol and William Freund
Floyd Alan Friedman
Patty Friedman and
Blair Levin
Eric and Nancy Fritz
Sharon Funderburk
Sheri Gant
Julie and Pete Gaskell
Eugenia Gatens-Robinson
Juliana K. Gauldin
John Gerwin
Catharine M. Gilliam
Brian and Lisa Goldstein
Nancy and Roger Gorham
Karl Gottschalk and
Dorothy Pugh
Rae Graber
Chris Graebner
Thomas W. Graham
Arlene Grew
Libby Grey
Barbara and James Grizzle
Christa Gunderson
Kay Hamrick
Albert V. Hardy Jr.
Rebecca Harriet and
William Lamar
Amie C. Harrison
Kitty Harrison
Jean Harry and Hugh Tilson
Robert W. Hart
Barbara Harvey
Lark Hayes and Jane Preyer
Bob Hellwig
Dorothy L. Heninger
Sandra Henson
Margaret Herring
Ellen M. Herron
Leslie and Tom Hicks
Harol Keith Hill
Rosemary Hoban and
Stephen Tell
Sarah R. Hoffman
Lisa Holmsen
Jim Holt and Michael Randall
Ann Horner
Louise Foushee Horney
Candace B. Howard
Tammy Howard and
David Smith
Cora Howlett
Edith Hubbard
Barbara Hughes
Tye and Wanda Hunter
Gretta and Shepard Hurwitz
Brian G. Ivey
Ann Jamerson
Ray Jefferies Jr.
Benton Johnson
Harold and Kristina Johnson
Nancy and Norman Johnson
Richard K. Johnson
Susan Cheng Johnson
Elisa Jones and Judy Riley
Mike Jones
Ed Johner
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Annuity Trust
Annette Jurgelski
Bill Kaiser
Gloria Welborn Kanoy
Kim Kelleher
Lewis and Susan Kellogg
Karen M. Kendig
Diane Kent
Dewey and Sandra Kerbow
Dietrich Kessler and
Johanna Prins
Jim Kirkman
Cheryl and Christopher Klein
Lynn Knauff
Ron Knight
Carolyn Johnson Koch
Gary Grove Koch
Bev Koester and
Jim McQuaid
Linda Koffengerger
Buz and Mary Kolek
Lucile M. Kossodo
Katherine Kovach
Carol Krauser
Kathryn G. Kross
Jutta G. Kuenzler
Ellie Lamb
Randy and Cathy Lambe
Susan Lannon
Judy Larrimore
Diane Laslie
Elsie L. Lee
Greta Lee
John and Ione Coker Lee
Sherrie Lemnios
George Lensing Jr.
Liz Leone
James Lesher and
Eleanor Rutledge
Jacob J. Levin
Gene Liau and Adaline Smith
Pat Lillie
Bolling and Bill Lowrey
Jean Luther
Ann H. Mack
Jenny Maher
Geary and Gus Mandrapilias
Nancy P. Mangum
Richard Mansmann
Donna and Gustavo Maroni
Katharine Marshall and
Matt Tulchin
Barclay and Nancy Martin
Grier and Louise Martin
Faye and Roy Martin
Roberta T. Masse
Victor Matsuo
Bud Matthews
Ann G. Matthysse
Alexis S. Maxwell
Alicia and Eugene Maynard
Joan Stuart McAllister
Julie McClintock and
John Morris
Robert McConnaughey and
Patricia Blanton
Owen and Pat McConnell
Janis McFarland and
Richard McLaughlin
Jessie E. McIntyre
Fawn C. McKissick
Barbara McLean
Daphne and Robert McLeod
Trena McNabb
Lesli and Michael McNamara
Sandra and Tom Meyer
Margaret S. Mielke
Claire and John Miller
Sally Cheney Miller
Charles E. Mitchell
Karen Mohlke and
Robert Wray
Leslie A. Montana
Aaron Moody and
Rebecca Vidra
Robin Moore
Ruth Moose
Jeffrey H. Morgan
C.L. and Nell Morton
Alex Morton
Nora Murdock
Victor Nadler
Patrick Nagle
Punita Nagpal and Jason Reed
Linda A. Naylor
Alan and Eloise Neebe
Woody Needham
Leslie and Mark Nelson
Network for Good
Francois D. Nielsen
Edwin and MaryAnn
Nirdlinger
Elaine and Joseph Norwood
Wendy Oakes
Oliver Orr
Carolyn A. Owen
Thank you to all who support the ­Garden,
especially to the many whose membership dues and gifts were received in the period from
January 27, 2014 to April 29, 2015.
G i f t s
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G i f t s , c o n t i n u e d
Gary and Kathleen Palmer
Janice Palmer
Julie and Michael Papay
Byron and Dolores Parry
Bill Pate
Rosa Patton
Wylie Paxton
Cary and David Paynter
Henry and Linda Perangelo
Barbara Perkins
Rebecca Perritt
Carol Perry
Peter and Ona Pickens
James and Darlene Pomroy
Janet P. Portzer
John Presley
Clare and David Pulman
Kent and Nancy Raymond
Jason Reed
Carol Reuss
Joe and Tamara Rice
Lynn Richardson
Kitz A. Rickert
Catherine Dorsey Riggs
David and Marguerite
Ringenburg
Carol Ripple
Sylvianne Roberge
Nancy Roberts
Betsy and Joe Robinson
Nancy Howes Robinson
Roger and Eugenia
Gatens-Robinson
Carol Rogers
Edwin and Sandi Rose
Martin and Angie McCaffrey
Rosenberg
Alton and Fran Ross
Michael and Margaret
O’Neil Ross
Benjamin Rotenburg and
Cynthia Walukewicz
Diane L. Royle
Abbie J. Royster
Bruce Lee Runberg
Alfonse and Jennifer Runquist
William G. Ryan
Randy and Mary Charlotte
Safford
Bruce Sampsell
Monica Riley Samsky
Erica and Rene Sanchez
Gayle and George Sawyer
Gert and Ruta Schuller
David and Margaret Schutz
Barbara and John Schutz
William K. Schwab Jr.
Suzanne M. Semmes
Mary Sheldon
Ellen Shepard
Judith T. Shepard
Gwen Silver
Susan Simon
Tom Simon
Jim and Tamara Slaughter
Nolan and Laura Smith
John and Catherine
Findley Smith
Robert and Marianne Smythe
Margaret Sockwell
Sebastian and Nancy Sommer
Jane A. Spanel
Neil and Vonda Stahl
Carol Brandt Staton
Pamela L. Stephens
William Stice and Diane Belt
Horst and Judy Stierand
Heather and Willilam Summer
Terrance A. Swanson
William Robert Swindaman
Richard and Zandra Talbert
Steven and Debra Taxman
Sudie Lou Taylor
Dwight and Judith Tedford
Barbara Tepperman
The Silver Foundation
Bryn and Heather Tracy
Jane and Bill Tucker
Lydia T. Upchurch
Nancy M. Valencia
Jeanne Van Gemert
Kim and Anahid
Kavookjian Vrana
Scott Walden
Joey Ware-Furlow
Gregg and Martha Warshaw
Elizabeth Jones Waters
Jeanne Watkinson
Warren and Judith Wegner
David Welch
Doris Wells
Elizabeth and Jim Wells
Hugh and Jennifer Wells
Debbie and Holland West
Judith West
Sharon Whitmore
Susan Joslin Williams
Frank and Ann Wilson
Janet H. Wilson
John and Ashley Wilson
Noah and Susan Wilson
Joyce and Steven
Winterbottom
Robert and Susan Wolff
Jane Woodard
Sarah Woodruff
Kathleen B. Wyche
Josie Yong
Alice Zawadzki
Designated Gifts
Art and Educational
Exhibits
Among Our Trees Exhibit
Connie Cohn
Diane Kent
Lynn Koss Knauff
North Carolina Native Plant
Society
Pollinator Exhibit
The Burt ‘s Bees Greater
Good Foundation
Cindy and Tom Cook
Barbara and Thomas Driscoll
Anne Fleishel Harris
Glenda Parker Jones
Charlotte Jones-Roe and
Chuck Roe
Thomas Krakauer
Missy and Sam Rankin
Fran and Gary Whaley
Whaley Family
Foundation Inc
Battle Park Endowment
Danny and Ann Crotts
Jackie Hall
Ann Jamerson
Ron Knight
Bob Korstad
Edwin and Harriet Poston
Margaret Roth Warren
Jim Schreiber
Scott Warren
Battle Park and Interns
Diana Whittinghill Steele
Barbara Stiles
Sandy and Reaves Thompson
Bernice S.Wade
Please refer to Gifts in Honor of
Barbara Stiles and Bernice S.
Wade for further support of
Battle Park Interns
Children’s Wonder Garden
Robert and Molly
Corbett Broad
Karen Carpenter
Gillian and Casey Hadden
Joe and Ramona Westmorland
Coker Arboretum
Endowment
Michael and Janet Delatte
Peter and Susan Dorsey
Stephan Grabner
Joyce Hensley
Ann Jamerson
Benton Johnson
Edgar Ivan Lopez
Thomas C. Lutken
Diego A. Malaver
Ellen C. McDermott
R. Dane Meredith
Jeanne Neumann
Jess Noland
Charles and Nancy Norwood
Jim Schreiber
Kiersten Smith
B. Peyton Watson
Coker Arboretum Interns
(Dead Mule Fundraiser)
James and Delight Allen
Anonymous
Bill Bracey
Winifred Compton Browne
Joel Bulkley
William R. Burk
W. Woodrow Burns Jr.
Suzanne Cadwell
Mary Clara Capel
Victoria S. Castor, Emory
Castor and Victoria Searcy
Louise M. Clifford
Peter and Susan Dorsey
Bob Eaves and
Beverly Eaves Perdue
Joseph G. Eisen
Jean and James Coker Fort
Marcella and Paul Grendler
Libby Grey
Sally Heiney
Karen Henry and Jack Fowle
Jonathan and Mary Howes
Charlotte A. Jones-Roe and
Chuck Roe
William and Mary Joyner
Susan Kelly
Thomas S. Kenan III
Timothy Kuhn
Randy and Cathy Lambe
Nan and Edgar Lawton
Katherine and John Lindsey
Alan MacIntyre
Margo MacIntyre and
George Morris
Melanie, Preston, Amilia, &
Ian MacIntyre
Harriet and D.G. Martin
Bet and Sandy McClamroch
Rachel Victoria Mills
Lynne Anne Mohrfeld
Ken Moore and Kathy Buck
Kent and Miriam Mullikin
Julia and Brian O’Grady
M. Franchot and Carol Palmer
Florence and Jim Peacock
Ed and Nancy Preston
Stephen and Sandra Rich
Diana and Tom Ricketts
Linda and Al Rimer
Mark and Jane May Ritchie
David Lawrence Robert
Hendrik Rodenburg
Eleanor Rutledge
Robert E. Seymour Jr.
Richard E. Shepherd
Holmes B. Smoot
Dan Stern and
Rosemary Byrnes
David and Terri Swanson
James Ward
Julie H. Williams
Pauline Williams and
Rob Davis
Coker Arboretum
Improvement Fund
Family of Bob Gordon
Carolina Campus
Community Garden
Tami Atkins
Lily T. Rolader
Nadera Salaam
Conservation Fund
Gary Andrew and Jean
Braxton
The Association of Carol
Woods Residents
Development Capacity
Florence and Jim Peacock
Educational Outreach
Mike and June Clendenin
Patricia Lockwood Davis
Chris Graebner
Benjamin Rotenburg and
Cynthia Walukewicz
Entry Landscape
Improvements
Barbara Roth
Evelyn McNeill Sims
Wildflower Lecture
Nancy and Ed Preston
Forest Theatre
Saianand Balu
Lois Mcleod
Forest Theatre
Restoration Fund
Tanner Hock and Sumeetha
Goli Hock
Diana Whittinghill Steele
Friends of UNC Herbarium
James Albert Belcher
General Operations Fund
Endowment
Eleanor Lamb
Gift Shop
Cindy and Tom Cook
Healing and Hope through
Science
Tami Atkins
Anna Elizabeth Bauer
Anna McCullough
Allie Nguyen
Dan Nguyen
Christopher Paul and Anna
Elizabeth Bauer
Michele Trovato
Nancy Walker
Sylvia Stoudemire Wallace
Monty and Nancy Hanes
White
Horticultural Therapy
Monty and Nancy Hanes
White
Horticulture Fund and
Interns
James and Delight Allen
Cindy and Tom Cook
C. Kevin Delaney
Nina and Milton Forsyth
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Volunteer Appreciation 2015
In the DeBerry Gallery
through June 30
Seed, Flower, Fruit: NC Botanicals
by the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Carolina Chapter
July 1 - August 31
As We See It
by the Botanical Art & Illustration Instructors
September 1 - November 1
Native Flowers - Gifts of Pollinators
Photographs by John Pringle
We gathered in April to recognize our dedicated and hardworking
volunteers. The North Carolina Botanical Garden would not be
able to do all it does without the support of these generous and
caring individuals.
Volunteers and staff enjoyed a festive lunch together.
Nancy Hillmer was honored by Chris Liloia for 43 years of volunteer service
at the Garden.
Erma Stein was honored by Matt
Gocke for 33 years of volunteer
service at the Garden.
Paula LaPoint was
honored by Barbara
Wendell for 30 years of
volunteer service at the
Garden.
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G i f t s , c o n t i n u e d
Living Plant Fund
Alan and Maxine Stern
Mason Farm Biological
Reserve
Bill Kaiser
Richard Wolfenden
Mason Farm Endowment
Bradley Cooper Allf
Kay Briggs
Thomas and Shauna Farmer
Anne M. Sayer
Robert and Marianne Smythe
John A. Wagner
Natural Areas Endowment
Oliver Orr
John Wagner
Nature Explorers
Justin Lord Coleman
Foundation
Rosemary Collection
North Carolina Unit of Herb
Soiety of America, Inc.
The Tom and Margaret
Scott Fund
Abbie J. Royster
Cynthia Keck Scott
Wildflower Program
Anne Albright
Heather Alley and
John Donnelly
George N. Altschuller and
Miao-Fang Lin
Brunswick County Master
Gardeners Association
Betty L. Chambers
Cindy and Tom Cook
Earl and Lynda Creutzburg
Susan Usher Eggert
Marilyn J. Garneski
Lucile M. Kossodo
Edward Murray IV
Woody Needham
Elizabeth D. Rovins
Garden Clubs
Durham Council Of
Garden Clubs
Garden Club Council of
Orange County
Lake Forest Garden Club of
Chapel Hill
Red Springs Garden Club
Gift memberships
Judy and Dwight Tedford—
for Elizabeth Morales
Mary Crawford—for Molly
and Jeff Crawford
Greg Fitch—for John and
Lisa McCubbin
Jennifer M Nelson—for
Holly Menninger and
Dan Fergus
In Honor Of
Angel, My Cat
Susan G. Shevach
W. Woodrow Burns, Jr
Barbara Schutz
The Association of Carol
Woods Residents
Susan Everett Gravely
Charlotte Timberlake Battle,
for Battle Park Fund
Jonathan and Mary Howes
Nancy H. Robinson
Charlotte Jones-Roe
Andrew and Jessica L’Roe
Nell Joslin
John and Ione Lee
Gilda Macksam
Bernice Bergup
Margo MacIntyre
Louise M. Clifford
Scottie Neill
Nancy S. Spencer
Clifford R. Parks
Karen and Gary McDougal
Susan and Bill Ross
Charlotte Timberlake Battle
Barbara L. Stiles and
Bernice Stiles Wade
for the Battle Park Fund in
honor of their 100th Birthday
and for Battle Park Interns
Cheryl and Brad Briner
Janet and Jim Dean
Mignon and Arthur DeBerry
Gimghoul Area
Homeowners Association
Harriet Holderness and
James Luebchow
Charlotte Jones-Roe and
Chuck Roe
Cathy and Randy Lambe
Harriet and D.G. Martin
Miriam Rabkin and
Thomas Hardy
LaDonna S. Rader
Priscilla Taylor
Robert Warren
Barbara L. Stiles and
Bernice Stiles Wade
In honor of their
100th Birthday, for
General Support
The Association of Carol
Woods Residents
Peter S. White
Peg Parker, for General Sup-port
and Horticulture Fund
Carol Ann McCormick and
Mark A. Peifer
Willow Hill Preschool
Diana Whittinghill Steele,
for Battle Park Endowment and
Forest Theatre
John B. Wilson
Eleanor Lamb
Barbara L. Stiles and Bernice
Stiles Wade
honor the following with their gifts
for Battle Park Interns
Shabari Case
Betty Elliot
Eric, Sara and Michael Fish
Robin Holmes
Marge, John, Megan and
Sara Kilgore
Sheila and Bob Koster
Becky, Armand, and
Aaron Lenchek
Anne Wade
Babs and Ralph Warren
In memory Of
Myrtle Rae
Wollard Alligood
Employees of
Target D430 and D454
C. Ritchie Bell
Richard C. Kennedy, Jr., for
UNC Herbarium Endowment
William Chambers Coker
Thomas S. Kenan III, for
Coker Arboretum Water Feature
Priscilla Freeman
Alan and Maxine Stern
Elizabeth Fudge
Chris Delaney
The Kramer Family
Carol Manzon
Gerie W. MacQueen
Bob Gordon
The Family of Bob Gordon,
for Coker Arboretum
Improvement Fund
Lee and Bob Matthews
Phyllis H. Burns
Scott McLean
Danny, Ann, Shell, and
Loretta Crotts
Peter Tryon Nielsen
Anne Whitlock Nielson
(J.E.) Bert O’Connell
Harriet J. Smith
Ronald Wayne O’Quinn
Faye L. O’Quinn
Evelyn “Robby” Osborne
The Osbornes
Karla Reed
Brenda B. Lazarus
Dorothy Sorrill Roe
Sandy and Judy Steckler,
for Conservation
Wivi Sternbach
Chapel Hill Garden Club
Matching Gifts
Becton Dickinson—matching
the gift of Pamela
Timmons for Mason Farm
Endowment and General
Support
Chevron “YourCause,
LLC”—matching the gift of
Linda Laferty
Corning—matching the
gift of Christy C. Lilley
for Coker Arboretum
Endowment
Exxon Mobil Foundation—
matching the gift of Jane
Lamm
GlaxoSmithKline—matching
the gift of David R. Brooks
IBM—matching the gift of
Anthony Amitrano and Jack
Alphin
Intel Foundation—matching
the gift of John E. Bishop
Merck—matching the gift of
Sylvianne Roberge
Pfizer—matching the gift of
Dorothy A. Hammett
Sherwin-Williams—matching
the gift of Jim Schmidt for
the Horticulture Fund
Texas Instruments—matching
the gift of Kathryn A.
Peters
Wells Fargo—matching the
gift of Sandy Thompson for
the Battle Park Fund
in-kind gifts,
general
Ken Moore and Kathy
Buck—holiday wreath of
native redbay
Linda and Lawrence Curcio—
holiday flower arrangements
Irregardless Café and
Catering—gift certificate
Betty Block James—botanical
and horticultural books
Charlotte Jones-Roe and
Chuck Roe—frames, mats,
and supplies
James Devereux Joslin—Ford
F150 Pickup Truck
Jinny and John Marino—DR
Power Wagon
Bill and Rosalie Olsen—land
gift
in-kind gifts,
dead mule
fundraiser
David Robert, Host and
Owner of Dead Mule
Club—food and hospitality
401 West Italian Cafe
Carolina Brewery & Grill
Country Vintners
Mediterranean Deli
Wine Without Borders
Mebanesville (music)
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S t a f f N o t e s
Miller wins North Carolina Botanical Garden Award
The 2015 North Carolina Botanical Garden Award was presented
to Jesse Miller of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for the
oral presentation Long-Term Landscape Change in Ozark Dolomite
Glades. The North Carolina Botanical Garden Award is a $300
prize and certificate given by NCBG for a presented paper at
the annual Association of Southeastern Biologists annual meet-ing
that best advances the understanding of the biology and
conservation of southeastern plants and/or their ecosystems.
Weakley receives Star Award
Alan Weakley, herbarium director, won
the 2015 Star Award from the Center for
Plant Conservation for exemplary service
to further our knowledge of plants. His
work and exceptional skill in document-ing
the flora of the southeastern United
States is what prompted the selection
of Weakley as this year’s winner. The
award was presented at the Center for Plant Conservation’s
national meeting, and recognizes individuals who demonstrate
the concern, cooperation, and personal investment needed to
conserve imperiled native plants. Past award winners include
Johnny Randall, director of conservation programs, and Peter
White, former director of the Garden.
New Battle Park Manager
Congratulations to Nick Adams,
our new Battle Park manager! Nick
is no stranger to Battle Park, having
served as the park’s assistant for
three years. He has hit the ground
running, completing the construction
of the Melinda Kellner Brock Terrace,
organizing workdays, and managing
Forest Theatre.
Nick Adams with the
“Monarch of the Forest”
tree in Battle Park.
Student employees completed a variety of projects at the Garden
this past academic year. Neil and Ramy are shown here, working
on the stream in the Herb Garden. Neil is spending his summer as
our Battle Park intern, and Ramy has graduated after working here
for four years. Have a great summer, students, and thanks for all of
your hard work!
The North Carolina Botanical Garden
publishes this news­letter
four times a year.
Editor & Layout Jennifer Peterson
Photography Sandra Brooks-Mathers, Laura Cotterman, Tom
Earnhardt, Allison Essen, Joy Hewett, Chris Liloia, Geoffrey Neal,
Jennifer Peterson, Johnny Randall
Illustrations Dot Wilbur-Brooks, Sandra Brooks-Mathers
Southeastern flora?
There’s an app for that!
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about the identification,
taxonomy, habitats, and
distribution of over 7,000
vascular plants that call
a 14-state region of the
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finger! Find it on iTunes!
Summer 2015 NCBG Newsletter 19
Charlotte Jones-Roe
Director of Development
919-962-9458
jonesroe@unc.edu
<< cont’d from page 5
If you would like to
speak with someone
about making a
special gift to the
Garden, call Charlotte
Jones-Roe at
919-962-9458 or
UNC’s gift planning
experts at
800-994-8803.
unclegacy.org
Leave a Legacy...
Sometimes a wonderful opportunity comes along, such as
our upcoming pollinator exhibit, and we just have to find funds
to sponsor it. Tom Krakauer made the first gift for the pol-linator
exhibit, and others joined him. An excellent proposal
to the Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation by Nancy
Easterling and Anne Lindsey brought a positive response, and
friends added their contributions to complete the funding for
the exhibit. Fran and Gary Whaley and the Whaley Family
Foundation, Anne Fleishel Harris, Glenda Parker Jones,
Cindy and Tom Cook, Missy and Sam Rankin, and Barbara
Driscoll were among those who quickly stepped up to make
sure we could host this upcoming event that is so closely related
to the Garden’s mission.
To make sure everyone would be able to enjoy the recent
Evelyn McNeill Sims Lecture, Nancy and Ed Preston made
a generous gift to sponsor this year’s lecture. The event honors
Nancy’s late mother, who loved wildflowers for more than a
century.
Cindy Cook made sure the wildflower program had the
resources to print more brochures for this year’s popular seeds
of Silene virginica. Cindy also joined others in contributing to the
new Horticulture Fund and providing support for student ca-shiers
in the Garden Shop. Barbara Roth, whose gifts for years
have helped Mason Farm, made another gift to help improve the
Garden’s entry landscape. The family of Bob Gordon made
a generous gift to help improve the stream corridor in Coker
Arboretum, where Bob spent countless hours taking on the
most difficult jobs. Diana Wittinghill Steele designated her gift
to help restore Forest Theatre and Battle Park. To make sure we
have what we need to raise funds and participate in the upcom-ing
UNC campaign, Florence and Jim Peacock made another
contribution to build development capacity and opened their
lovely home to host a get-to-know-you party for our new direc-tor,
introducing Damon and his lovely wife, Sara, to the Botani-cal
Garden Foundation board and other Garden supporters.
Other donors made gifts that will continue to give in the
future: Oliver Orr, who for many years cared for the trails in
the Coker Pinetum, directed his gift to build the Natural Areas
Endowment. Charles and Nancy Norwood made their gift to
the Coker Arboretum Endowment, so that our campus garden
would always have the care it needs. Sandy Thompson, Edwin
and Harriet Poston, and others added their gifts to the grow-ing
endowment for Battle Park, where the beautiful Melinda
Kellner Brock Terrace will soon be complete.
This spring, several Garden members have let us know of
their plans to include the Garden in their wills so that their sup-port
will continue even after they are no longer here to help as
volunteers and sponsors.
With new leadership and energy, we are looking forward to
becoming an even better Conservation Garden and showplace
for native plants.
We are grateful for all of you who make it possible.
Dead Mule Club owner
David Robert presents
NCBG Director
Damon Waitt with a
shirt at the Dead Mule
Club fundraiser for
Coker Arboretum.
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Jenny Elder Fitch Lecture
Sunday, September 27, 2-4:45pm
The Living Landscape
Rebuilding Nature’s Relationships, Doug Tallamy
The Living Landscape:
Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden, Rick Darke
Tallamy will explain why plants evolved in concert with local animals to provide for
their needs, why these specialized relationships determine the stability of local food
webs, and why it is important to restore life to our residential properties. Then, Darke
with explore the richness of life through the richness of the landscape’s layers. From
ground cover to canopy, Darke will suggest ways to conserve, create, and manage
home gardens that are beautiful, diverse, joyfully livable, and double as homes for wild-life.
Book signing 1-1:45pm, prior to the lecture. Books for sale in our Garden
Shop. Free. Preregistration required.
In the Pegg Exhibit Hall
through June 14
Fragile Flora: North Carolina Rare Plants
by Torey Wahlstrom
G a r d e n H o u r s
Weekdays Year-round: 8 am – 5 pm
Weekends through May Weekends June–August
Saturdays 9 am – 5 pm Saturdays 9 am – 6 pm
Sundays 1 pm – 5 pm Sundays 1 pm – 6 pm

Summer 2015  Promoting Education, Conservation, Research, Plant Collections, Public Service  Volume 43, Number 2
N E W S L E T T E R
N O R T H C A R O L I N A B O T A N I C A L G A R D E N
T H E U N I V E R S I T Y o f N O R T H C A R O L I N A a t C H A P E L H I L L
The North Carolina Botanical Garden held a ceremonial planting of a potentially
blight-resistant American chestnut seedling at Coker Arboretum on Arbor Day.
The chestnut seedling is part of a unique breeding program led by The American
Chestnut Foundation (TACF) to restore the American chestnut to the eastern
forests of America.This tree was once one of the most important trees in the
forests from Maine to Georgia and from the piedmont to the Ohio River Valley.
Chestnut blight, known as the largest ecological disaster of the 20th century,
struck in 1904, and by 1950, four billion trees had been destroyed. TACF hopes
their program of restoring the American chestnut will serve as a template for the
restoration of other species.
Potentially blight-resistant chestnut
planted in Coker Arboretum
June 15―October 3, 2015
The majority of all flowering plants rely on
pollinators, a group of animals that includes over
200,000 species. Our food and natural habitats
rely on these animals, and each of us has an ac-tive
role to play in shaping their future.
The Saving Our Pollinators four-month exhi-bition
features 28 events, including workshops,
exhibits, talks, and tours that highlight the acute
plight of pollinators, including bees, birds, and
butterflies.
Discover the importance of our pollinators
as the Garden illustrates their challenges and
offers solutions to help secure a stable future
for them.
Find program listings on pages 9-12, or
online at www.ncbg.unc.edu/pollinators.
Our new director, Dr. Damon Waitt, joined the
NCBG staff in mid-April. Read his first Newsletter
message on page 2.
Saturday, June 6, 6-10pm
Join us for a spectacular summer evening
garden party with great food, drink,
live music, dancing, and a silent and live
auction to support the Garden’s efforts
in conservation, education, and research.
Tickets available at door:
$125 per person
Tom Saielli, southern regional science coordinator at The American Chestnut Foundation,
discussed the history and ecology of the American chestnut.
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means to be a university-affiliated conservation-themed botanical
garden in the 21st century. More to come in the next newsletter.
Meanwhile, there are pumps that need replacing, tractors that
need repair, fires that need to be put out and fires that need to be
started (as in prescribed burns). To respond to these immediate
and often unanticipated needs, we have established a new fund
called the Director’s Fund with lead gifts from myself, Jonathan
Howes, Jim and Delight Allen, and several others. I hope you will
consider renewing your support of the Garden by visiting our
website (ncbg.unc.edu) and making a contribution to this new
fund.
As my old friend the bluebonnet disappeared in my rearview
mirror, I wondered who would welcome me to North Carolina.
The dogwoods and redbuds were in full bloom as I made my way
over the Smokies, arriving in the piedmont just in time to see
trillium, dwarf-crested iris, Atamasco lily and wild indigo put on
a spectacular show. When I arrived at the Garden, North Caro-lina
cousins of Texas phlox, Indian paintbrush and columbine,
introduced themselves, only sporting slightly different names.
Soon thereafter, the maples, oaks, hickories, and other hardwoods
leafed out, drenching everything and everyone in photosynthesis
(and pollen). And now, I am especially enjoying my strange new
carnivorous compadres, the pitcher plants, sundews, and Venus
flytraps.
It has been a glorious first spring in North Carolina, and I look
forward to meeting and working with all of you…in the seasons
to come.
Let me start this,
my first contribution to
the newsletter, by thank-ing
the North Carolina
Botanical Garden, the
Botanical Garden Foun-dation,
the University of
North Carolina, and the
Chapel Hill community
for the warm welcome to
North Carolina. People,
like plants, are sometimes
difficult to transplant, but everyone has been so incredibly nurtur-ing
and supportive that my boots have already started to put down
roots. Coming from Texas, I also thought I knew a little about
Southern hospitality, but y’all have taken it to a whole new level.
Speaking of new levels, in my first week at the Garden, I ad-dressed
the staff at our first staff meeting, the volunteers at the
Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon, the Botanical Garden Foun-dation
at its spring board meeting, the Chapel Hill community
at the 100th birthday celebration for the Sisters of Gimghoul
Road(Barbara Stiles and Bernice Stiles Wade), and the University
community at a wonderful reception hosted by Florence and Jim
Peacock. Together, these groups are the pillars that support and
sustain the North Carolina Botanical Garden. My first message to
them was that we were not going to take the Garden to the next
level. Together, we would determine what the next level is, then
skip that level and take the Garden to a place that redefines what it
by Damon Waitt, NCBG Director
In the Seasons to Come...
D i r e c t o r ’ s M e s s a g e
A Special Thanks…
As only the third director of the North Carolina Botanical Gar-den,
I would like to give special thanks to the people whose shoes
I will endeavor to fill and whose shoulders I hope to stand on;
especially Jonathan Howes, who served as interim director from
January 1, 2015 to April 13, 2015, Dr. Peter White, who served
as director from 1986 to 2015 and Dr. Ritchie Bell, who was the
Garden’s first director, serving from 1961 to 1986. The Garden
is especially grateful to vice provost for academic initiatives, Dr.
Carol Tresolini, and provost James Dean for establishing the
Garden directorship as a full-time position for the first time in
the Garden’s 49-year history.
Indian paintbrush along a path at the North Carolina Botanical Garden
Summer 2015 NCBG Newsletter 3
C o n s i d e r T h i s
Pollination ecology: A long history and a hopeful future
by Johnny Randall, NCBG Director of Conservation Programs
The Saving Our Pollinators exhibit, kicking off June 15, offers
a series of presentations, workshops, field trips, and other activi-ties
that will help provide information needed to help recover and
sustain our forgotten pollinators. We have certainly heard the wake-up
call ushering in a new urgency to ensure pollinator health for both
crops and native plants, but let’s take a moment to see where this
call began, and why it is so important.
Although plant sexuality was not formally recognized until the
late 1600s, pollination studies began at least as early as 1500 BC,
based on evidence from Assyrian bas
reliefs depicting the transfer of pollen
from one date palm to another. It was
not until the “golden age of botany”
in the 1700s, however, that vast plant
exploration and great advances in
the understanding of plant anatomy,
taxonomy, and pollination biology
occurred.
Interest in pollination biology
was clearly boosted in this “golden
age” by Carl Linnaeus’s “sexual system” that used the number
of stamens and the nature of the pistil for plant classification
purposes. But Linnaeus nearly scandalized the study of botany
by his human/plant sexuality comparisons!
During this same period, the scientific study of insect-mediated
pollen transfer took off, led by the German theologist,
Christian Konrad Sprengel. But because of his great interest in
botany and pollination, he was removed as rector at the Spandau
Citadel.
In 1813, Hermann Muller first observed and published on
the narrow foraging range of bees and that they return to the
same plants time-after-time, and occasionally day-after-day. Muller
also correlated bee behavior with flower color, nectar and pollen
contributions to insect diet, and the association of certain insects
with particular plant communities.
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace invigorated the
study of pollination biology after they proposed that changes in
species were the product of natural selection. Darwin wrote sev-eral
books on pollination, but it was his 1862 text – On the various
contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and
on the good effects of intercrossing – that solidified pollination ecology
as a “proper science.”
Through much of the 20th century, pollination studies in
both the crop and biological sciences plodded along only to find
a tremendous swell of interest in the 1970s that continues today.
It’s hard to pick up a plant biology journal nowadays without find-ing
a paper on pollination biology. But within all of the academic
study and amazing discoveries on the nature of plant-pollinator
interactions, an important piece was missing.
This missing piece was identified by Stephen Buchmann and
Gary Paul Nabhan with the publication of The Forgotten Pollinators in
1996, who pointed out that our pollinators are in trouble. Habitat
loss for both plants and their pollinators, rampant ecosystem frag-mentation,
widespread pollution, and
overzealous pesticide use has created
a perfect storm for pollinator decline.
The Xerces Society for Inver-tebrate
Conservation notes that
there are some 4,000 bee species in
the United States and over 25,000
worldwide. Globally, over 85 percent
of flowering plants are pollinated by
insects, and 90 percent of these pol-linators
are bees, followed by butter-flies,
moths, beetles, and flies. Bees are so renowned as pollinators
that they are called “the sparkplugs of agriculture” by agronomists.
So be sure to stop by the Garden and the Allen Education
Center to discover more about our pollinators, their challenges,
and solutions to help secure a stable future for them.
Check out our Pollinator
Garden brochure, available in
the Allen Education Center
or online at
tinyurl.com/pollinatorgarden
Would you like
to know more
about planting for
pollinators?
4 NCBG Newsletter Summer 2015
Here in North Carolina, we often complain about heat and
humidity in the summer months. It is, however, the same warmth
and moisture that gives rise to the spectacular array of summer
wildflowers and shrubs found at the Botanical Garden. But the
blooms are only half the story!
Walk slowly and look closely, and you will see another daz-zling
show―the pollinators. The summer flowers at our botanical
garden attract a tremendous variety of butterflies, moths, bees,
wasps, beetles, and hummingbirds. As these pollinator animals
collect nectar and spread pollen, they assure the season’s crop of
seeds, berries, and nuts.
A mix of species, colors, and shapes of native flowering plants
assures a greater diversity of pollinators. Around our house in
Raleigh, my wife and I have common milkweed, bee-balm, but-terfly
weed, several types of coneflower, cardinal flower, swamp
sunflower, coral honeysuckle, passion-flower, and Joe-pye-weed.
We have no designated “pollinator garden” area; native flower-ing
plants spread throughout the yard. We enjoy the flowers, but
we eagerly welcome the visitors they attract--gaudy swallowtails,
clumsy bumblebees, and magnificent ruby-throated hummingbirds.
No matter where you live, it is possible to have a pollinator
garden. Your “garden” can be just a couple of flowerpots in your
window! If you haven’t already done so, give yourself the gift
of summer. The best selection of North Carolina wildflowers is
available right here at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. You’ll
get two shows―the blooms and the pollinators they attract―for
the price of one.
The Gift of Summer
The Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc. is the 501(c)3 non-profit organization
that holds land for conservation and raises money for the North Carolina Botanical
Garden, a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
B o t a n i c a l G a r d e n F o u n d a t i o n N e w s
2015 Board of Directors
Officers
Tom Earnhardt, President
Missy Rankin, Vice President
Stephen Rich, Treasurer
Greg Fitch, Secretary
Directors
Betsy Bennett
Bob Broad
Sandra Brooks-Mathers
Cotton Bryan
Wanda Bryant
Melissa Cain
Chip Callaway
Becky Cobey
Jan Dean
Robert W. Eaves Jr.
Lysandra Gibbs-Weber
Debbie Hill
Jay Leutze
Harriet Martin
Scottie Neill
Nancy S. Preston
Linda Rimer
Bill Ross
Tom K. Scott
Barbara K. Wendell
John Wilson
Immediate Past President
Anne Lindsey
Honorary Directors
Claire Christopher
Gretchen Cozart
Arthur S. DeBerry
Muriel Easterling
Mary Coker Joslin
Nancy Stronach
Sally Couch Vilas
by Tom Earnhardt, President, Botanical Garden Foundation
Summer 2015 NCBG Newsletter 5
A Developing Garden notes from Charlotte Jones-Roe, Director of Development
and to direct gifts in honor of their 100th
birthday to the Battle Park interns. They
were joined by Sandy Thompson, Randy
and Cathy Lambe, the Gimghoul Neigh-borhood,
Arthur and Migon DeBerry,
Jan and Jim Dean, and others. Jonathan
Howes gave in the Sisters’ honor and said we could count on
him to make up the difference in the amount still needed for the
$5,500 internship, allowing our new Battle Park manager, Nick
Adams, to hire the interns he needs to care for our beautiful
campus forest. The partially-funded Martha Decker DeBerry
endowment produces some revenue for the Coker Arboretum
summer internship, but we were still a long way from having
enough to fund a full-time, four-month intern this summer.
David Robert, a daily visitor to Coker Arboretum and owner
of the Dead Mule Club on Franklin Street, offered to host a
fundraiser. We are grateful for MedDeli, 411 West, Carolina
Brewery, Wine Without Borders, Country Vintners, and
others for the delicious fare, and to “Mebanesville” for musical
entertainment for our crowd of Arboretum friends. Checks con-tinue
to arrive in response to curator Margo MacIntyre’s letter.
We may not need to take Dave up on his invitation for next year
– but we might, just for the fun of it!
Damon Waitt has already met hundreds of our Garden
volunteers who extend our ability to care for the Garden and
provide important services. He has met University officials who
can help us and has already begun visiting and making friends
with people who support the Garden through their financial
contributions. Dr. Waitt has established a new fund, The Direc-tor’s
Fund, which will be very useful in solving the Garden’s
challenges. Thank you, Damon, for making the first gift, fol-lowed
immediately by gifts from Jonathan Howes, Jim and
Delight Allen, and Sally Vilas and Harry Gooder to make
sure our new director will have resources to accomplish his vi-sion
for the North Carolina Botanical Garden.
We are always grateful for dues and unrestricted gifts that
may be spent “where the need is greatest.” This quarter, we have
received numerous unrestricted gifts that have made a big dif-ference.
They include another large distribution from the Julia
E. Irwin Charitable Lead Annuity Trust, and gifts from Ona
and Peter Pickens, Claire and Hudnall Christopher, Cindy
and Tom Cook, Sandra Henson, C.L. and Nell Morton, Joe
and Tamara Rice, John and Ashley Wilson, Arthur and Mi-gnon
DeBerry, Cathy and Randy Lambe, Gretchen Cozart,
Gwen Silver and The Silver Foundation, Victor Nadler, Van
Womack Daniel, Oliver Orr, Sylvianne Roberge, John and
Ione Coker Lee, Erica and Rene Sanchez, and many others.
The Garden has a new, full-time director! We welcome
Damon Waitt, who brings experience as a botanist, horticultur-ist,
and administrator, as well as the vision and desire to take
the Garden “to a level above the next level!” With a full-time
advocate and problem-solver who seeks to make our Garden
all it can be, the future of the North Carolina Botanical Gar-den
looks bright. We thank Jonathan Howes for his service as
interim director and piloting the Garden through several months
with his wise and caring spirit. We are grateful to have had such
experienced leadership at this time of transition.
Deep cuts to balance the Garden’s budget caught us by sur-prise
this spring, and we found ourselves without funds to hire
summer interns or take care of other basic needs. The students
we had selected needed to know if they had a job, and the long,
hot summer ahead was looking very bleak indeed. Fortunately,
the Garden has a wealth of supportive friends who came to
our rescue in some very creative ways. When Jim and Delight
Allen heard there might be no student interns, they delivered a
check to sponsor an intern for Horticulture on the next busi-ness
day. Cindy Cook, Peg Parker, and others made contribu-tions
toward a second intern to support the Horticulture staff.
Eunice Brock agreed to sponsor one of the interns for Battle
Park this summer, in memory of her daughter Melinda Kellner
Brock. The Sisters of Gimghoul Road, Barbara Stiles and Ber-nice
Wade, decided to make generous contributions themselves
cont’d on page 19 >>
Twin sisters Barbara Stiles and Bernice Wade asked for donations to fund
the Battle Park intern as part of their 100th birthday celebration.
Charlotte Jones-Roe with the Sisters, celebrating 100 years
6 NCBG Newsletter Summer 2015
Each summer and fall, over a hundred undergrads learn the
basics of plant identification and taxonomy from Herbarium di-rector
Dr. Alan Weakley in his Local Flora class. One lab session
is devoted to a tour of the Herbarium. Students discover they
can explore fungi, lichens, mosses, algae, and vascular plants from
around the world simply by opening herbarium cases in Coker
Hall.
Local Flora student Ellie
Kravets (UNC-CH class of 2017)
has now become a volunteer
in the Herbarium, and she has
delved into specimens collected
by Herbert Huntingdon Smith.
Smith and his wife, Amelia “Dai-sy”
Woolworth were all-around
naturalists, collecting insects,
mammals, molluscs, birds, and
plants in Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico,
and the West Indies. Smith’s bo-tanical
specimens collected in
Colombia piqued Ellie Kravets’s
interest, and she has devoted all
of her attention to them.
The UNC Herbarium has
hundreds of specimens that Smith collected in Colombia. All have
minimal information – a typical label is “Plants of Santa Marta,
United States of Colombia Collected by Herbert H. Smith, 1898-
1901,” the plant name, and Smith’s field collection number. In
1910, Herbert and Daisy were jointly offered the directorship of
the Alabama Natural History Museum in Tuscaloosa. The Smith’s
interests were diverse, and Herbert and Daisy were still processing
the plant material he’d collected in Colombia, when Herbert (who
was deaf) was killed by a train as he walked to work at the museum.
This spot, on the University of Alabama campus, was known as
“Smith’s Crossing” for years afterward.1 (Amazingly enough, the
Herbarium has the specimens of another deaf botanist who was
hit by a train―Gerald McCarthy of North Carolina―but that’s
another story.)
“The events concerning the early naming and distribution
of [Herbert H. Smith’s] botanical specimens remain sketchy. The
Carnegie Museum accessioned one set of Smith’s Colombian
plants containing approximately 2500 unidentified specimens.
Smith arranged for most of the plant identifications to be made
H e r b a r i u m R e p o r t
Local Flora, Deaf Botanists, Type Specimens, Colombia, and Trains:
A Typical Day in the Herbarium
by Carol Ann McCormick, Curator, UNC Herbarium
at the New York Botanical Garden by Dr. H. H. Rusby [and the
ferns] by Dr. L. M. Underwood. Specimens sent to New York
for identification by Rusby and Underwood were accompanied
by carefully noted habit, habitat, and locality data, handwritten in
pencil on slips of paper. These slips were subsequently mounted
with the plant material.”2 Alas, the specimens acquired by the UNC
Herbarium lack these handwritten
slips!
Since Smith collected so many
plants that were new to science,
his specimens from Colombia
are type specimens―the botanical
specimens upon which scientific
names are based. In 1988, Dr.
David Boufford (M.S. Botany,
UNC-CH 1976) of the Gray
Herbarium at Harvard University
and Dr. Tina Ayers of the Bailey
Hortorium at Cornell University
compiled a list of Smith’s type
specimens deposited in six her-baria
in the United States, but not
any of Smith’s specimens here in
Chapel Hill. Ellie Kravets used the
Boufford/Ayers list to scour the University of North Carolina
Herbarium, and she found 103 type specimens! She has annotated
each as an “Isotype” and moved them to the special herbarium
case where we keep all our valuable type specimens. They will be
among the first specimens to be imaged and databased for the
virtual herbarium at sernecportal.org. Future projects include
loaning Smith’s specimens to botanists to confirm the identity of
the plants, and comparing our labels to those at other herbaria to
glean more habitat, locality, or date information so these can be
added to the specimens.
Like Herbert and Daisy Smith, Ellie Kravets’s interests in-clude
both the botanical and zoological. Ellie is back home in
New Orleans for the summer, raising Mississippi Sandhill Cranes
(Grus canadensis pulla) at the Audubon Nature Institute’s Species
Survival Center. She has promised to keep well clear of streetcars
and other trains!
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Huntingdon_Smith accessed on
28 April 2015.
2. Ayers, Tina J. and David E. Boufford (1988) Index to the vascular plant
types collected by H. H. Smith near Santa Marta, Colombia. Brittonia 40(4):
400-432.
Herbarium volunteer Ellie Kravets works on specimens collected by
Herbert H. Smith in Columbia circa 1900.
Summer 2015 NCBG Newsletter 7
A G a r d e n e r ’ s J o u r n a l
It’s hard to remember that only four years ago, we were still
moving dirt and just beginning to plant the landscapes associated
with our new buildings. Now the James and Delight Allen Edu-cation
Center stands among abundant, evolving, and maturing
gardens. The trees and shrubs are fill-ing
in, and the perennials are thriving
and blooming. What was once Laurel
Hill Road is now a piedmont habitat
garden abounding with grasses and
wildflowers.
When I was new to the Garden,
I wondered why we had habitat
gardens representing the mountains,
coastal plain, and sandhills but not
the piedmont, the very province in
which we’re located. The answer was
that the nature trail was our piedmont
habitat. It wasn’t a bad answer―the
woods adjacent to the garden are
wonderful and a good example of
our local piedmont forest full of
spring wildflowers, diverse understory
shrubs and lovely beech, oak, and
hickories in the canopy. Nonetheless,
I was always looking for space to put
more piedmont species in the garden,
especially some of the showier, sun-loving
plants that most frequently
persist on roadsides. The opportunity
to have a space dedicated to piedmont plants has been a great step
forward in the way the Garden exposes people to native plants
and conservation gardening, and has made it possible to focus on
native plants on an even more local scale.
Our work to display and conserve southeastern native plants
takes in a fairly broad region with incredible botanical diversity.
In our collections, you can see Florida azalea from the deep south
growing side-by-side with mountain phlox from the Appalachians.
Parts of the piedmont habitat narrow that scope and feature local
biodiversity. Here we have the opportunity to tell a different story
about native plants. In large part, the plants in this collection have
been grown from seed collected nearby. There are beds displaying
roadside plants of Orange, Durham, and Chatham counties, as
well as areas meant to represent our surrounding woods. These
spaces allow us to show off our local flora and how cultivating
these plants can have a tremendous impact on biodiversity by sup-porting
native wildlife from insects all the way up the food chain.
The piedmont habitat contains beds displaying a number of
Discoveries in the Piedmont Habitat
by Chris Liloia, NCBG Habitat Gardens Curator
different ideas. We designed spaces to take advantage of the sun
to display piedmont natives with prairie affinities, and we created
shady spaces with richer soils for woodland beds. There are also
spaces which are more horticultural, showing off some of our
lesser known piedmont species and
advocating for their use as great
garden plants.
All of these new plants and new
themes have led to lots of discover-ies
and horticultural lessons learned.
• We’ve observed that starry ros-inweed
(Silphium asteriscus var. aster-iscus),
grown from seed collected at
the nearby Mason Farm Biological
Reserve, is one of the most remark-able
pollinator plants on site attract-ing
myriad species over the course
of its bloom period.
• We’ve seen that under the right
conditions, fire-pink (Silene virginica)
will seed in with abandon. We start-ed
with a few plants grown from
Chatham County seed. Two years
later, that original planting produced
such an abundance of seedlings that
we were able to spread it around in
the new landscapes. Last year, we re-alized
that we had this plant in such
profusion that we would be able to
collect enough seed to make it our Wildflower of the Year!
• The indian-paintbrush (Castillejja coccinea), a biennial that
must reseed to have a continued presence in the garden,
is now self-sustaining and continues to seed in and bloom
beautifully.
• We introduced three species of sunflower new to the Gar-den.
Now I know which ones spread rapidly by runners. For
the record, Helianthus microcephalus and H. divaricatus are best
employed in areas where space is plentiful.
Four years have given us time to learn about gardening in
our new spaces, time to experiment with new taxa, and time to
work towards collecting seed and growing the species we plan to
incorporate. We’ve come a long way and I look forward to where
we’re going.
Top: Fire-pink (Silene virginica) in abundance in the piedmont habitat.
Bottom: Indian paintbrush (Castillejja coccinea) is now self-sustaining
in the habitat
8 NCBG Newsletter Summer 2015
The end of spring is an interesting time in the Arboretum. The
past couple of months have been visually exhausting. After finally
saying farewell to winter―a party guest who completely outstayed
its welcome, if you ask me―we’ve been rewarded with longer
mornings and pleasant afternoons. Our chores of weeding and
pruning and thinning have slowed a bit, and now we turn to more
robust projects best accomplished when the student population
is less. It’s not like we do not want to share our gardens, quite the
contrary, but it is nice to tackle resurfacing a path without needing
to detour the harried and the hurrying.
So, what’s looking good in the Arboretum? So glad you asked.
The obvious answer would be: Daylilies! But that’s not really a
fitting topic for this newsletter. Instead let’s turn our ever-curious
gaze elsewhere within the garden and explore.
There is a walkway that extends from the back of Davie Hall
down into the Arboretum from the southwest side that is bordered
by a healthy line of southern magnolias (Magnolia grandiflora). Their
ever present shading is a relief as temperatures rise to be sure, but
if you happen to catch sight of the flowers…well, it’s not to be
missed. I grew up in North Carolina and have always been around
this plant, yet I am still bowled over by the enormous, fragrant
cream white flowers.
Near the top of the Magnolia walk, on the other side of the
path is a striking native tree, one of two in the Arboretum. It has
frilly, white flowers that are often overlooked as so many of them
are way over our heads. Find the one or two limbs that are head
height and you’ll be able to enjoy the flowers of the Northern
Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa). The long slender pod-like fruits that fol-low
are held for a good while and will drop in late autumn. The
second of our pair is elsewhere in the garden; I’ll leave it for you
to find.
A bit lower to ground are two excellent shrubs that reliably
show off this time of year. The first is the Oakleaf Hydrangea
(Hydrangea quercifolia). Really, truly, no garden should be without
one. Or seven, if you’ve got the room. They are a first-rate decidu-ous
shrub in this neck of the woods. The flowers are held long
and they dry beautifully. The fall leaf color can be striking as well.
And of course, there’s that textured bark that gives us something
to look at in January.
Second is more of a small tree, though it slowly sends out
suckers to colonize an area, lending a solidly shrubby look to the
plant. The Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora) is a woodland
native that lives at the edge of our Live Oak Lawn under the
shade of red maple (Acer rubrum), live oak (Quercus virginiana), and
deciduous magnolia (Magnolia x soulangiana, not native). The five
parted leaf is striking. The foot-high flower spikes that festoon the
N o t e s f r o m C o k e r A r b o r e t u m
plant this time of year are wonderful. Fall color can be a brilliant
yellow, lighting up an understory.
To be sure, there are many more plants to see this time of
year in the Arboretum. (Prickly pear cactus, Stoke’s aster, tickseed,
gayfeather, coneflower, etc…) June is a great time to come by!
Late spring in the Arboretum
by Geoffrey Neal, Assistant Curator, Coker Arboretum
Clockwise, starting from top left: Southern Magnolia (Magnolia
grandiflora), Northern Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa), Bottlebrush Buckeye
(Aesculus parviflora), Oakleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)
Summer 2015 NCBG Newsletter 9
Education Programs
Registration in online! ncbg.unc.edu/calendar
Summer/Fall 2015
North Carolina Botanical Garden
Butterflies in Colored Pencil
Linda Koffenberger, Professional Artist
Sunday, June 21; 1–4:30pm
This class is an introduction to drawing with
colored pencils, using one of North Carolina’s
many butterflies as reference. Students are given
step-by-step instruction, as well as informa-tion
about our native butterflies. Students can
purchase drawing materials or borrow for the
course. $40 ($35 Members)
Edibles on Paper:
Berries of Summer in Watercolor
Kathy Schermer-Gramm, Professional Artist
Sunday, June 28; 2–5pm
Draw and paint in watercolor some of our bee-pollinated
summer berries. Discover painting the
waxy bloom of a blueberry, creating rich dark
colors for a juicy blackberry, and an introduc-tion
to their pollinator friends. Some watercolor
experience is helpful. Paint and paper included.
$45 ($40 Members)
How to Paint a Cast Shadow
Patricia Savage, Professional Artist
Saturday, July 11; 1–4:30pm
Using different-sized objects and various sur-faces,
students look at how shadows change with
shapes and how shadows are affected by the
surfaces they fall on. $40 ($35 Members)
How to Paint a Flat Wash
Patricia Savage, Professional Artist
Saturday, July 18; 1-4:30pm
Working on pre-stretched watercolor paper,
students will tackle painting a large flat wash.
$40 ($35 Members)
Edibles on Paper:
Tomatoes in Watercolor
Kathy Schermer-Gramm, Professional Artist
Sunday, July 19; 1:30–5pm
Spend this summer getting acquainted with
tomatoes! Instruction includes drawing for accu-racy,
painting wet into wet with saturated color,
followed by dry brush to bring out the details.
Some watercolor knowledge is helpful. Paint and
paper supplied. $38 ($34 Members)
Drawing for People
Who Think They Can’t Draw
Kathy Schermer-Gramm, Professional Artist
Sunday, July 26, 1:30–5pm
This workshop shows students that drawing is
a skill anyone can learn. Students progress from
a blank sheet of paper to a beautiful, finished
drawing. Come try, and discover that yes, you
can draw! $38 ($34 Members)
Beginning Drawing
Kathy Schermer-Gramm, Professional Artist
Saturdays, Aug 1, 8, 15, 22; 1–4:30pm
This is the entry course for the Certificate in
Botanical Illustration and is designed for a broad
audience. Students learn the fundamentals of
illustration through contour drawing, negative
space, perspective, and tone.
$150 ($135 Members)
Introduction to
Botanical Art and Illustration
Linda Koffenberger, Professional Artist
Sunday, Aug 9; 1:30–5pm
This half-day class explores the history of
botanical illustration, shows examples of various
types of botanical illustrations and art, describes
the coursework for the Certificate in Botanical
Illustration, and introduces the instructors. $38
($34 Members)
Impressions in Beeswax
Martha Petty, Professional Artist
Saturday, Aug 15; 10am–4:30 pm
Learn techniques in encaustic painting, painting
with layers of hot beeswax fused together. You
will create six small paintings that will be glued
together to make a larger work of images. We
will also dip various plant materials in beeswax,
iron onto paper, and stain with walnut ink to
make a small pamphlet stitch book. Open to
anyone interested in working with beeswax!
Bring your lunch. $70 ($60 Members), plus $10
materials fee (cash or check) due at class
N a t u r e A r t & I l l u s t r a t i o n
Plant This, Not That for Pollinators
Mary Leonhardi,
Bee Hobbyist and Master Gardener
Sunday, June 28; 2–3pm (Rain date: July 19)
Not all flowering plants are created equal in the
lives of pollinating insects. This workshop will
focus on which plants to add to your garden to
attract bees and butterflies and which are of less
interest to pollinators. Since many pollinator
numbers are diminishing, find out what you can
do to help! Meets at Carolina Campus Commu-nity
Garden. Free, pre-registration required.
Gardening for Pollinators
Elsa Youngsteadt, Margarita López-Uribe,
April Hamblin; NC State Entomology
Saturday, Sept 12; 9:30–11:30am
North Carolina is home to more than 500 spe-cies
of native bees. These beneficial insects are
essential to the maintenance of our gardens
and the environment. More than 85% of all
flowering plants need bees or other pollinators
to help them reproduce and bear fruit. This
workshop will help you recognize some native
bees, understand their relationships with plants,
and learn how to support them with bee-friendly
gardens. Appropriate for novice gardeners, but
has something for everyone—including plants to
take home! $15 ($10 Members)
H o m e G a r d e n i n g
= Native Plant Studies Certificate Program
= Botanical Art & Illustration Certificate Program
= “Saving Our Pollinators” Program
Everyone is welcome in Certificate classes! For more information:
ncbg.unc.edu/certificate-programs
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N a t u r e S t u d i e s
Plant Propagation
Matt Gocke,
NCBG Nursery/Greenhouse Manager
Saturday, June 6; 9:30-11:30am
Learn the fundamentals of vegetative propaga-tion
and techniques for propagating southeast-ern
native plants by means of stem and root
cuttings. Class includes hands-on propagation
and a tour of the vegetative propagation facilities
of NCBG. $30 ($25 Members)
Entomology
Steve Hall, Landscape Ecologist
Sundays, June 7, 14, 21, 28; 1:30–4:30pm
Learn insect family recognition and com-mon
species identification, insect ecology and
conservation, basic life cycle biology, sampling
techniques, and how to improve insect habitat
and conservation in the urban environment.
$125 ($115 Members)
Saving Our Pollinators
Kick-off Lecture
Johnny Randall,
NCBG Director of Conservation Programs
Thursday, June 18; 7–8pm
Join us for a special lecture celebrating National
Pollinator Week and the kickoff of the “Saving
Our Pollinators” exhibition. There is now, more
than ever, the need to better understand the biol-ogy
of insect pollinators for the sake of both
cultivated and native plants. This presentation
covers the scientific study of pollination ecology,
provides guidelines for ensuring pollinator health
in the urban landscape, and offers information
on what we can all do to help our native pollina-tors.
Free, preregistration required.
Summer Flora
Milo Pyne, Plant Ecologist
Saturdays, June 27, July 11, 18, 25;
9:30am–12:30pm
This course is intended for a broad audience, as
well as for students who are enrolled in either
of the Garden’s certificate programs. Field trips
and exercises provide experience in the use of
identification keys and recognition of plants in a
natural setting. $130 ($117 Members)
The Plant Pollinator Partnership and
Special Importance of Bees
Anne Lindsey, Botanist
Sunday, June 28; 3:30–4:30pm
Enjoy a celebration of the extraordinary partner-ship
of flowers and their animal pollinators, a
relationship that has influenced the evolution
of plants and their primary partners―bees, flies,
butterflies and moths, beetles, birds, and mam-mals―
for millions of years. Special attention will
be given to the importance of bees to the suc-cessful
reproduction of their host flowers and
the significance of flowers to the lives of bees.
Free, preregistration required.
BEE-hold the Humble Pollinator!
Exhibit Opening Reception
Sunday, June 28; 4:30–5:30pm
The word “pollen” may make you think “aller-gies,”
but pollination—the movement of plant
pollen from the male part of a flower to the
female part—is essential to life. Without it, there
would be no apples or tomatoes, no almonds or
pecans. Join us for a reception to celebrate the
Garden’s new exhibit, part of the “Saving Our
Pollinators” program, on the role of bees in the
pollination of plants, both wild and cultivated.
Be amazed at the diversity of bees and adap-tations
of flowers to attract their pollinating
assistants. Learn about threats to these essential
pollinators and what you can do to help reduce
these threats and safeguard our bees.
Common Native Bees
Slideshow and Garden Foray
Nancy Adamson,
Pollinator Conservation Specialist
Sunday, July 26; 2:30–4:30pm
Learn about some of the most common bees
pollinating flowers and supporting the great
diversity of our landscapes. In North Carolina,
we have about 500 native species and a few
introduced species, in addition to the European
honey bee. Bumble bees, mason bees, mining
or digger bees, sunflower bees, carpenter bees,
hibiscus bees, and leafcutter bees are all groups
you can easily recognize when you slow down
and take a look. After a slideshow, weather per-mitting,
we will walk in the Garden to see who
inhabits our wonderful native plants. $15 ($10
Members)
Botany
Olivia Lenahan, Horticultural Scientist
Saturdays, Aug 1, 8, 15, 22; 9:15am-2:15pm
This introductory course covers basic principles
of botany, including taxonomy, anatomy, mor-phology,
and physiology. Class time is divided
between lectures and examining/dissecting
samples. There will also be opportunities for
making observations in the gardens.
$195 ($175 Members)
Pollination
Anne Lindsey, Botanist
Saturdays, Aug 29, Sept 12, 19, 26;
9:30am–12:30pm
This course explores the partnership of flower-ing
plants and their animal pollinators. Included
will be a study of attractant systems, breed-ing
biology of the floral partner, aspects of
the biology and behaviors of pollinators, and
importance of pollination to ecosystem health
and human food production. Lectures will be
followed by field observations and lab work.
This course has prerequisites: ncbg.unc.edu/
certificate-programs. $130 ($117 Members)
Native Seed Propagation
Heather Summer,
NCBG Seed Program Coordinator
Saturday, Sept 12; 1:30–4:30pm
Learn seed propagation techniques for native
perennials and woody plants. Topics include seed
collection methods, post-collection handling,
cleaning equipment and techniques, seed storage,
seed sowing techniques, sowing media, cultural
requirements of seedlings, and dormancy re-quirements.
$32 ($29 Members)
Bee Health in an Urban Landscape
Rebecca Irwin, NC State Entomology
Sunday, Sept 13; 2–3pm
We live in an increasingly urbanized world.
This talk will describe how suburbanization of
the landscape has affected bee biodiversity in
Raleigh and Durham, NC, and the pollination
services bees provide to wild growing plants. We
will explore landscape features associated with
the conservation of native bee biodiversity, and
how we can use garden plantings to conserve
bee health and biodiversity.
Free, pre-registration required.
Caterpillarology –
The Study of Pollinator Precursors
Mike Dunn, Naturalist
Sunday, Sept 20; 2:30–4:30pm
Join local naturalist Mike Dunn as he shares
some of the secrets of the lives of local caterpil-lars.
Many species of butterflies and moths are
important pollinators, but, in addition to plants
that provide nectar, they also need host plants
for their caterpillars (many are quite specific)
to complete their life cycle. Learn more about
the fascinating larval stage of these important
pollinators and what plants can attract them to
your property. There will be live specimens to
observe. $15 ($10 Members)
Jenny Elder Fitch Lecture:
Doug Tallamy and Rick Darke
Sunday, Sept 27; 2–4:45pm
See back cover
= “Saving Our Pollinators”
program
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L u n c h b o x T a l k s
Bring your lunch and join us for a free lecture! Pre-registration required.
Sizzling Cities: Native Bee
Communities and Urban Heat
April Hamblin, NC State Entomology
Thursday, June 25; 12–1pm
Bees pollinate most of our flowering plants, in-cluding
many crop species. As urbanization and
climate change continue to increase, it is vital
to understand how these variables influence the
native bee community to predict future changes.
Join us to learn about exciting new research fo-cusing
on how urban heat affects our native bee
communities. Free, pre-registration required.
Pollinator Habitat Restoration in NC
Botanical Garden Nature Preserves
Johnny Randall, NCBG Dir. of Conserv. Prgms
Thursday, July 9; 12–1pm
Former agricultural lands and fire suppressed
woodlands often provide appropriate habitat to
reconstruct the Piedmont savanna ecosystem,
a habitat for important pollinator groups such
as bees, flies, wasps, butterflies, and moths. The
NCBG oversees the conservation and manage-ment
of nearly 1,000 acres of natural areas.
Learn about our restoration activities, such as
monitoring pollinator diversity and abundance,
creating nesting habitat, and using prescribed fire
to help protect and maintain pollinator habitat.
Free, pre-registration required.
Registration is Online!
http://ncbg.unc.edu/calendar/
Click on Calendar & Registration
to enter our secure registration site.
Advance registration is required for all
programs unless otherwise indicated.
H i k e s & T o u r s
Honey Bee Hive Tour
Anne Cabell, Bee Hobbyist
Sunday, June 7; 2–3pm (rain date: June 20)
Come learn about one of the world’s most fasci-nating
insects. Bees are responsible for pollinat-ing
one third of the world’s food and produce
one of the sweetest treats around. Participants
explore a real live honey bee hive with hobbyist
beekeeper, Anne Cabell. Meets at Carolina Cam-pus
Community Garden. Free, pre-registration
required.
Pollinator Garden Tours at
Chatham Mills
Wednesdays, June 10, July 8, Aug 12, and Sept 9;
5:30–6:30pm
Agriculture Extension Agent Debbie Roos will
lead tours of Chatham County Cooperative Ex-tension’s
Pollinator Paradise Demonstration
Garden. Free and open to the public, rain or
shine. Meet on the sidewalk in front of Chatham
Marketplace in Pittsboro. For more information:
growingsmallfarms.ces.ncsu.edu/
growingsmallfarms-gardentours.
Free, no registration required.
Birds and Bees, Flowers and Trees –
Pollinator Hike
Brian Bockhahn, Interpretation & Education
Specialist, NC State Parks
Saturday, Aug 8; 10am–12pm
Enjoy a hike to look for our native pollinators
and learn about the important role they play
in the environment. Through observation and
some live collection, we will learn some basic
identification techniques. The pace of our hike
will be slow, but be prepared for the heat and
bring a hat, sunscreen, drinking water, and may-be
bug spray. Free, pre-registration required.
Butterflies, Science, and You:
Observing Butterflies as a
Citizen Scientist
Christine Goforth, Senior Manager of Citizen
Science, NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Thursday, Aug 20; 12–1pm
Butterflies are some of the most well-known
and best understood insects on the planet, but
there are still gaps in our scientific understanding
of butterflies and the role they play in our envi-ronment.
You can help! By becoming a citizen
scientist, making simple observations of but-terflies,
and reporting what you see online, you
can make valuable contributions to our overall
understanding of butterflies and the important
pollination services they provide. Learn about
the many ways that you can get involved in but-terfly
research and help conserve these beautiful
animals well into the future.
Free, pre-registration required.
Native Plants for Pollinators
Chris Liloia, NCBG Habitat Gardens Curator
Thursday, Sept 3; 12–1pm
Learn about some great native plants that will
help support pollinators in your home land-scape.
This talk focuses on native perennials and
shrubs that provide nectar and pollen through-out
the growing season, host plants for butterfly
and moth caterpillars to feed on, and grasses and
other cover plants to provide habitat. Free, pre-registration
required.
C e r t i f i c a t e P r o grams
Are you interested in gaining greater
knowledge and appreciation of the
native plants of the southeastern
United States? Would you like to
learn how to accurately draw and
paint plants or improve your skills?
The Garden offers adult learners,
from amateurs to professionals,
two unique opportunities to learn
about plants through in-depth
courses taught by dedicated,
expert instructors: Native Plant
Studies and Botanical Art and
Illustration. Both programs culminate in a professional certification. To
learn more and see a full listing of fall semester courses (July – Dec 2015):
ncbg.unc.edu/certificate-programs
Advance registration is
required for all programs
unless otherwise indicated!
ncbg.unc.edu/calendar
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Little Sprouts
ages 3-5 with accompanying adult
Share a morning of discovery with your little
sprout and nurture their natural curiosity for
the living world. Each class includes hands-on
indoor and outdoor activities for you and your
child to learn about plants, animals, and nature.
Play games, take a short hike, make a craft, hear a
story, and more. One adult per child please.
$10 ($8 Members) per child/adult pair
Buzz-y Bees
Saturday, June 20; 10–11am
Hooray for Hummingbirds!
Saturday, July 18; 10–11am
Flower Power
Saturday, Aug 15; 10–11am
Flutter-by Butterfly
Saturday, Sept 19; 10–11am
Fun with Bees
Elsa Youngsteadt, Margarita Lopez-Uribe, April
Hamblin; NC State Entomology
Sunday, June 28; 1:30–3:30pm
Stop by the native bee table to get a glimpse of
North Carolina’s amazing bee diversity. More than
500 species live in our state alone―from bumble
bees to green bees, cuckoo bees to squash bees.
Learn how native bees benefit our gardens and
the environment and how to support them in
your yard. Kids and adults will all find things to
do and see, including games to play and speci-mens
to examine. Each family will get to make
and take home a bee nesting bundle!
Free, no registration required.
Nature Illustration for Kids:
Bees, Blossoms, and Butterflies
ages 8-12
Bob Palmatier, Artist and Naturalist
Saturdays, Sept 26, Oct 3, 10, 17; 1–4pm
Learn to identify and illustrate our local but-terflies
and bees. Students will hone skills in
watercolor, pen and ink, and colored pencil,
using materials and techniques of professional
nature illustrators to compose works of art
that celebrate our pollinators! Each child will
receive an art kit and conclude with two matted
illustrations. $140 ($125 Members), includes
student art kit
Monarch Magic
ages 5-10 with accompanying adult
Saturday, Oct 3; 1–3pm
It’s that magical time of year! Monarch butter-flies
are in the midst of their incredible journey
south to wintering grounds in Mexico. Discover
the amazing life cycle of this colorful insect
with live specimens, learn how to tag butterflies
for citizen science project Monarch Watch,
and find out how you can help bring back the
monarchs! Each child will receive a special plant
to take home. Note: Adult chaperone required.
$15 ($13.50 Members); no fee for accompa-nying
adult
Y o u t h & F a m i l y P r o g r a m s
= “Saving Our Pollinators”
program
Summer Concert with
The Village Band
Sunday, June 21; 3pm
Join us for a summertime concert at the
Garden. Pieces for this performance will
include The Liberty Bell March (J. P. Sousa),
Lincolnshire Posy (Percy Grainger), Galop
(Dmitri Shostakovich), The Eighties (John
Higgins, a medley of pop tunes), and more!
Free, no pre-registration required.
“Bee, I’m Expecting You”
Poetry Reading
Jeffrey Beam, Poet
Sunday, July 19; 3–4pm
Viva la bumble bee! “Bee – I’m Expecting
You” is North Carolina poet Jeffery Beam’s
celebration of the pollinator responsible
for every third bite of food we eat. This
popular reading of bee poems finds Beam
reading from his own Life of the Bee, as well
as poems by numerous poets throughout
history, including Pablo Neruda, Sylvia
Plath, and Virgil. $10 ($8 Members)
Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) blooming in at
the Garden. The North Carolina Botanical Garden
is home to a diverse collection of carnivorous
plants, including flytraps, pitcher plants, and
sundews.
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Notes from the William L. Hunt Archives
by Ken Moore, NCBG Assistant Director Emeritus
Garden benefactor William L. Hunt envisioned a library at
the North Carolina Botanical Garden that would become recog-nized
as a regional resource for the study of botany, horticulture,
landscape design, and garden history.
Among Hunt’s rare book treasures housed at the Garden is
a set of the Botanical Register, issued to subscribers from 1815 to
1847. The full title of this publication is: “The Botanical Register:
consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants cultivated in British
Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment.” This year is
the 200th anniversary of the first volume of this prestigious British
horticultural publication.
Of special note is the inclusion in this first volume of three
perennials native to North Carolina: yellow passionflower, Passiflora
lutea, (introduced into England by Mark Catesby in 1714); spotted
monarda, Monarda punctata (cultivated in England in 1714) and a
former North Carolina Wildflower of the Year, butterfly-weed,
Asclepias tuberosa, (first cultivated in England in 1690 at Hampton
Court).
The text accompanying the beautiful illustration of butterfly-weed
is extensive and practical. One snippet, for example: “Generally
raised from imported seed. Reguires to be placed in a warm, dry, sheltered border of light mould. When its tuberous root has become
large, it does not bear transplanting well.” Oh, how well do we old timers who have tried in vain to relocate a mature specimen of
butterfly-weed know this to be true!!
The 1815 Botanical Register entry for butterfly-weed (Ascelpias tuberosa). The
NC Botanical Garden library archives include the full set of this publication,
among many other treasures.
Healing and Hope Through Science (HHTS), a program of the
North Carolina Botanical Garden, brings hands-on science and nature
activities to kids and teenagers at UNC and Duke Children’s Hospi-tals
and provides activities for pediatric outpatients twice a month at
the Garden. The program’s mission is to empower pediatric patients
with the wonders of nature and science through multi-sensory learn-ing
experiences that promote joy and well-being. HHTS serves over
1600 pediatric patients each year. For more information, please visit:
www.wonderconnection.org
Healing and Hope Through Science
“I really like doing science activities. It’s fun to help my little sister, too.”
―Healing and Hope Through Science student
Help Celebrate
Healing and Hope Through Science
WonderFest 2015
September 26, 2015, 5:30-9:30pm
Bring your friends and family for an evening
of live music, food, and family-friendly science
activities at the NC Botanical Garden!
Save the Date!
DIRECTOR’S FUND
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Family of Judy Ransbury
GENERAL SUPPORT
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Broad
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Center for Creative Balance
Edward Cerne
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Betsy Donovan
Kathy Doyle and
James Graves
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Thomas O’Neal
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Freeman
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Dorothy Pugh
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Stephen Tell
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Candace B. Howard
Tammy Howard and
David Smith
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Gretta and Shepard Hurwitz
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Ann Jamerson
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Benton Johnson
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Ed Johner
Julia E. Irwin Charitable Lead
Annuity Trust
Annette Jurgelski
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Johanna Prins
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Jim McQuaid
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Greta Lee
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Geary and Gus Mandrapilias
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John Morris
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Patricia Blanton
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Network for Good
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Nirdlinger
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Oliver Orr
Carolyn A. Owen
Thank you to all who support the ­Garden,
especially to the many whose membership dues and gifts were received in the period from
January 27, 2014 to April 29, 2015.
G i f t s
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Kent and Nancy Raymond
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Ringenburg
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Gatens-Robinson
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Rosenberg
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Safford
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Heather and Willilam Summer
Terrance A. Swanson
William Robert Swindaman
Richard and Zandra Talbert
Steven and Debra Taxman
Sudie Lou Taylor
Dwight and Judith Tedford
Barbara Tepperman
The Silver Foundation
Bryn and Heather Tracy
Jane and Bill Tucker
Lydia T. Upchurch
Nancy M. Valencia
Jeanne Van Gemert
Kim and Anahid
Kavookjian Vrana
Scott Walden
Joey Ware-Furlow
Gregg and Martha Warshaw
Elizabeth Jones Waters
Jeanne Watkinson
Warren and Judith Wegner
David Welch
Doris Wells
Elizabeth and Jim Wells
Hugh and Jennifer Wells
Debbie and Holland West
Judith West
Sharon Whitmore
Susan Joslin Williams
Frank and Ann Wilson
Janet H. Wilson
John and Ashley Wilson
Noah and Susan Wilson
Joyce and Steven
Winterbottom
Robert and Susan Wolff
Jane Woodard
Sarah Woodruff
Kathleen B. Wyche
Josie Yong
Alice Zawadzki
Designated Gifts
Art and Educational
Exhibits
Among Our Trees Exhibit
Connie Cohn
Diane Kent
Lynn Koss Knauff
North Carolina Native Plant
Society
Pollinator Exhibit
The Burt ‘s Bees Greater
Good Foundation
Cindy and Tom Cook
Barbara and Thomas Driscoll
Anne Fleishel Harris
Glenda Parker Jones
Charlotte Jones-Roe and
Chuck Roe
Thomas Krakauer
Missy and Sam Rankin
Fran and Gary Whaley
Whaley Family
Foundation Inc
Battle Park Endowment
Danny and Ann Crotts
Jackie Hall
Ann Jamerson
Ron Knight
Bob Korstad
Edwin and Harriet Poston
Margaret Roth Warren
Jim Schreiber
Scott Warren
Battle Park and Interns
Diana Whittinghill Steele
Barbara Stiles
Sandy and Reaves Thompson
Bernice S.Wade
Please refer to Gifts in Honor of
Barbara Stiles and Bernice S.
Wade for further support of
Battle Park Interns
Children’s Wonder Garden
Robert and Molly
Corbett Broad
Karen Carpenter
Gillian and Casey Hadden
Joe and Ramona Westmorland
Coker Arboretum
Endowment
Michael and Janet Delatte
Peter and Susan Dorsey
Stephan Grabner
Joyce Hensley
Ann Jamerson
Benton Johnson
Edgar Ivan Lopez
Thomas C. Lutken
Diego A. Malaver
Ellen C. McDermott
R. Dane Meredith
Jeanne Neumann
Jess Noland
Charles and Nancy Norwood
Jim Schreiber
Kiersten Smith
B. Peyton Watson
Coker Arboretum Interns
(Dead Mule Fundraiser)
James and Delight Allen
Anonymous
Bill Bracey
Winifred Compton Browne
Joel Bulkley
William R. Burk
W. Woodrow Burns Jr.
Suzanne Cadwell
Mary Clara Capel
Victoria S. Castor, Emory
Castor and Victoria Searcy
Louise M. Clifford
Peter and Susan Dorsey
Bob Eaves and
Beverly Eaves Perdue
Joseph G. Eisen
Jean and James Coker Fort
Marcella and Paul Grendler
Libby Grey
Sally Heiney
Karen Henry and Jack Fowle
Jonathan and Mary Howes
Charlotte A. Jones-Roe and
Chuck Roe
William and Mary Joyner
Susan Kelly
Thomas S. Kenan III
Timothy Kuhn
Randy and Cathy Lambe
Nan and Edgar Lawton
Katherine and John Lindsey
Alan MacIntyre
Margo MacIntyre and
George Morris
Melanie, Preston, Amilia, &
Ian MacIntyre
Harriet and D.G. Martin
Bet and Sandy McClamroch
Rachel Victoria Mills
Lynne Anne Mohrfeld
Ken Moore and Kathy Buck
Kent and Miriam Mullikin
Julia and Brian O’Grady
M. Franchot and Carol Palmer
Florence and Jim Peacock
Ed and Nancy Preston
Stephen and Sandra Rich
Diana and Tom Ricketts
Linda and Al Rimer
Mark and Jane May Ritchie
David Lawrence Robert
Hendrik Rodenburg
Eleanor Rutledge
Robert E. Seymour Jr.
Richard E. Shepherd
Holmes B. Smoot
Dan Stern and
Rosemary Byrnes
David and Terri Swanson
James Ward
Julie H. Williams
Pauline Williams and
Rob Davis
Coker Arboretum
Improvement Fund
Family of Bob Gordon
Carolina Campus
Community Garden
Tami Atkins
Lily T. Rolader
Nadera Salaam
Conservation Fund
Gary Andrew and Jean
Braxton
The Association of Carol
Woods Residents
Development Capacity
Florence and Jim Peacock
Educational Outreach
Mike and June Clendenin
Patricia Lockwood Davis
Chris Graebner
Benjamin Rotenburg and
Cynthia Walukewicz
Entry Landscape
Improvements
Barbara Roth
Evelyn McNeill Sims
Wildflower Lecture
Nancy and Ed Preston
Forest Theatre
Saianand Balu
Lois Mcleod
Forest Theatre
Restoration Fund
Tanner Hock and Sumeetha
Goli Hock
Diana Whittinghill Steele
Friends of UNC Herbarium
James Albert Belcher
General Operations Fund
Endowment
Eleanor Lamb
Gift Shop
Cindy and Tom Cook
Healing and Hope through
Science
Tami Atkins
Anna Elizabeth Bauer
Anna McCullough
Allie Nguyen
Dan Nguyen
Christopher Paul and Anna
Elizabeth Bauer
Michele Trovato
Nancy Walker
Sylvia Stoudemire Wallace
Monty and Nancy Hanes
White
Horticultural Therapy
Monty and Nancy Hanes
White
Horticulture Fund and
Interns
James and Delight Allen
Cindy and Tom Cook
C. Kevin Delaney
Nina and Milton Forsyth
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Volunteer Appreciation 2015
In the DeBerry Gallery
through June 30
Seed, Flower, Fruit: NC Botanicals
by the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Carolina Chapter
July 1 - August 31
As We See It
by the Botanical Art & Illustration Instructors
September 1 - November 1
Native Flowers - Gifts of Pollinators
Photographs by John Pringle
We gathered in April to recognize our dedicated and hardworking
volunteers. The North Carolina Botanical Garden would not be
able to do all it does without the support of these generous and
caring individuals.
Volunteers and staff enjoyed a festive lunch together.
Nancy Hillmer was honored by Chris Liloia for 43 years of volunteer service
at the Garden.
Erma Stein was honored by Matt
Gocke for 33 years of volunteer
service at the Garden.
Paula LaPoint was
honored by Barbara
Wendell for 30 years of
volunteer service at the
Garden.
Summer 2015 NCBG Newsletter 17
G i f t s , c o n t i n u e d
Living Plant Fund
Alan and Maxine Stern
Mason Farm Biological
Reserve
Bill Kaiser
Richard Wolfenden
Mason Farm Endowment
Bradley Cooper Allf
Kay Briggs
Thomas and Shauna Farmer
Anne M. Sayer
Robert and Marianne Smythe
John A. Wagner
Natural Areas Endowment
Oliver Orr
John Wagner
Nature Explorers
Justin Lord Coleman
Foundation
Rosemary Collection
North Carolina Unit of Herb
Soiety of America, Inc.
The Tom and Margaret
Scott Fund
Abbie J. Royster
Cynthia Keck Scott
Wildflower Program
Anne Albright
Heather Alley and
John Donnelly
George N. Altschuller and
Miao-Fang Lin
Brunswick County Master
Gardeners Association
Betty L. Chambers
Cindy and Tom Cook
Earl and Lynda Creutzburg
Susan Usher Eggert
Marilyn J. Garneski
Lucile M. Kossodo
Edward Murray IV
Woody Needham
Elizabeth D. Rovins
Garden Clubs
Durham Council Of
Garden Clubs
Garden Club Council of
Orange County
Lake Forest Garden Club of
Chapel Hill
Red Springs Garden Club
Gift memberships
Judy and Dwight Tedford—
for Elizabeth Morales
Mary Crawford—for Molly
and Jeff Crawford
Greg Fitch—for John and
Lisa McCubbin
Jennifer M Nelson—for
Holly Menninger and
Dan Fergus
In Honor Of
Angel, My Cat
Susan G. Shevach
W. Woodrow Burns, Jr
Barbara Schutz
The Association of Carol
Woods Residents
Susan Everett Gravely
Charlotte Timberlake Battle,
for Battle Park Fund
Jonathan and Mary Howes
Nancy H. Robinson
Charlotte Jones-Roe
Andrew and Jessica L’Roe
Nell Joslin
John and Ione Lee
Gilda Macksam
Bernice Bergup
Margo MacIntyre
Louise M. Clifford
Scottie Neill
Nancy S. Spencer
Clifford R. Parks
Karen and Gary McDougal
Susan and Bill Ross
Charlotte Timberlake Battle
Barbara L. Stiles and
Bernice Stiles Wade
for the Battle Park Fund in
honor of their 100th Birthday
and for Battle Park Interns
Cheryl and Brad Briner
Janet and Jim Dean
Mignon and Arthur DeBerry
Gimghoul Area
Homeowners Association
Harriet Holderness and
James Luebchow
Charlotte Jones-Roe and
Chuck Roe
Cathy and Randy Lambe
Harriet and D.G. Martin
Miriam Rabkin and
Thomas Hardy
LaDonna S. Rader
Priscilla Taylor
Robert Warren
Barbara L. Stiles and
Bernice Stiles Wade
In honor of their
100th Birthday, for
General Support
The Association of Carol
Woods Residents
Peter S. White
Peg Parker, for General Sup-port
and Horticulture Fund
Carol Ann McCormick and
Mark A. Peifer
Willow Hill Preschool
Diana Whittinghill Steele,
for Battle Park Endowment and
Forest Theatre
John B. Wilson
Eleanor Lamb
Barbara L. Stiles and Bernice
Stiles Wade
honor the following with their gifts
for Battle Park Interns
Shabari Case
Betty Elliot
Eric, Sara and Michael Fish
Robin Holmes
Marge, John, Megan and
Sara Kilgore
Sheila and Bob Koster
Becky, Armand, and
Aaron Lenchek
Anne Wade
Babs and Ralph Warren
In memory Of
Myrtle Rae
Wollard Alligood
Employees of
Target D430 and D454
C. Ritchie Bell
Richard C. Kennedy, Jr., for
UNC Herbarium Endowment
William Chambers Coker
Thomas S. Kenan III, for
Coker Arboretum Water Feature
Priscilla Freeman
Alan and Maxine Stern
Elizabeth Fudge
Chris Delaney
The Kramer Family
Carol Manzon
Gerie W. MacQueen
Bob Gordon
The Family of Bob Gordon,
for Coker Arboretum
Improvement Fund
Lee and Bob Matthews
Phyllis H. Burns
Scott McLean
Danny, Ann, Shell, and
Loretta Crotts
Peter Tryon Nielsen
Anne Whitlock Nielson
(J.E.) Bert O’Connell
Harriet J. Smith
Ronald Wayne O’Quinn
Faye L. O’Quinn
Evelyn “Robby” Osborne
The Osbornes
Karla Reed
Brenda B. Lazarus
Dorothy Sorrill Roe
Sandy and Judy Steckler,
for Conservation
Wivi Sternbach
Chapel Hill Garden Club
Matching Gifts
Becton Dickinson—matching
the gift of Pamela
Timmons for Mason Farm
Endowment and General
Support
Chevron “YourCause,
LLC”—matching the gift of
Linda Laferty
Corning—matching the
gift of Christy C. Lilley
for Coker Arboretum
Endowment
Exxon Mobil Foundation—
matching the gift of Jane
Lamm
GlaxoSmithKline—matching
the gift of David R. Brooks
IBM—matching the gift of
Anthony Amitrano and Jack
Alphin
Intel Foundation—matching
the gift of John E. Bishop
Merck—matching the gift of
Sylvianne Roberge
Pfizer—matching the gift of
Dorothy A. Hammett
Sherwin-Williams—matching
the gift of Jim Schmidt for
the Horticulture Fund
Texas Instruments—matching
the gift of Kathryn A.
Peters
Wells Fargo—matching the
gift of Sandy Thompson for
the Battle Park Fund
in-kind gifts,
general
Ken Moore and Kathy
Buck—holiday wreath of
native redbay
Linda and Lawrence Curcio—
holiday flower arrangements
Irregardless Café and
Catering—gift certificate
Betty Block James—botanical
and horticultural books
Charlotte Jones-Roe and
Chuck Roe—frames, mats,
and supplies
James Devereux Joslin—Ford
F150 Pickup Truck
Jinny and John Marino—DR
Power Wagon
Bill and Rosalie Olsen—land
gift
in-kind gifts,
dead mule
fundraiser
David Robert, Host and
Owner of Dead Mule
Club—food and hospitality
401 West Italian Cafe
Carolina Brewery & Grill
Country Vintners
Mediterranean Deli
Wine Without Borders
Mebanesville (music)
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S t a f f N o t e s
Miller wins North Carolina Botanical Garden Award
The 2015 North Carolina Botanical Garden Award was presented
to Jesse Miller of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for the
oral presentation Long-Term Landscape Change in Ozark Dolomite
Glades. The North Carolina Botanical Garden Award is a $300
prize and certificate given by NCBG for a presented paper at
the annual Association of Southeastern Biologists annual meet-ing
that best advances the understanding of the biology and
conservation of southeastern plants and/or their ecosystems.
Weakley receives Star Award
Alan Weakley, herbarium director, won
the 2015 Star Award from the Center for
Plant Conservation for exemplary service
to further our knowledge of plants. His
work and exceptional skill in document-ing
the flora of the southeastern United
States is what prompted the selection
of Weakley as this year’s winner. The
award was presented at the Center for Plant Conservation’s
national meeting, and recognizes individuals who demonstrate
the concern, cooperation, and personal investment needed to
conserve imperiled native plants. Past award winners include
Johnny Randall, director of conservation programs, and Peter
White, former director of the Garden.
New Battle Park Manager
Congratulations to Nick Adams,
our new Battle Park manager! Nick
is no stranger to Battle Park, having
served as the park’s assistant for
three years. He has hit the ground
running, completing the construction
of the Melinda Kellner Brock Terrace,
organizing workdays, and managing
Forest Theatre.
Nick Adams with the
“Monarch of the Forest”
tree in Battle Park.
Student employees completed a variety of projects at the Garden
this past academic year. Neil and Ramy are shown here, working
on the stream in the Herb Garden. Neil is spending his summer as
our Battle Park intern, and Ramy has graduated after working here
for four years. Have a great summer, students, and thanks for all of
your hard work!
The North Carolina Botanical Garden
publishes this news­letter
four times a year.
Editor & Layout Jennifer Peterson
Photography Sandra Brooks-Mathers, Laura Cotterman, Tom
Earnhardt, Allison Essen, Joy Hewett, Chris Liloia, Geoffrey Neal,
Jennifer Peterson, Johnny Randall
Illustrations Dot Wilbur-Brooks, Sandra Brooks-Mathers
Southeastern flora?
There’s an app for that!
The FloraQuest app
makes the1,000+ page
Flora of the Southern
and Mid-Atlantic States
available on your mobile
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about the identification,
taxonomy, habitats, and
distribution of over 7,000
vascular plants that call
a 14-state region of the
southeastern United
States home can be used with the swipe of a
finger! Find it on iTunes!
Summer 2015 NCBG Newsletter 19
Charlotte Jones-Roe
Director of Development
919-962-9458
jonesroe@unc.edu
<< cont’d from page 5
If you would like to
speak with someone
about making a
special gift to the
Garden, call Charlotte
Jones-Roe at
919-962-9458 or
UNC’s gift planning
experts at
800-994-8803.
unclegacy.org
Leave a Legacy...
Sometimes a wonderful opportunity comes along, such as
our upcoming pollinator exhibit, and we just have to find funds
to sponsor it. Tom Krakauer made the first gift for the pol-linator
exhibit, and others joined him. An excellent proposal
to the Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation by Nancy
Easterling and Anne Lindsey brought a positive response, and
friends added their contributions to complete the funding for
the exhibit. Fran and Gary Whaley and the Whaley Family
Foundation, Anne Fleishel Harris, Glenda Parker Jones,
Cindy and Tom Cook, Missy and Sam Rankin, and Barbara
Driscoll were among those who quickly stepped up to make
sure we could host this upcoming event that is so closely related
to the Garden’s mission.
To make sure everyone would be able to enjoy the recent
Evelyn McNeill Sims Lecture, Nancy and Ed Preston made
a generous gift to sponsor this year’s lecture. The event honors
Nancy’s late mother, who loved wildflowers for more than a
century.
Cindy Cook made sure the wildflower program had the
resources to print more brochures for this year’s popular seeds
of Silene virginica. Cindy also joined others in contributing to the
new Horticulture Fund and providing support for student ca-shiers
in the Garden Shop. Barbara Roth, whose gifts for years
have helped Mason Farm, made another gift to help improve the
Garden’s entry landscape. The family of Bob Gordon made
a generous gift to help improve the stream corridor in Coker
Arboretum, where Bob spent countless hours taking on the
most difficult jobs. Diana Wittinghill Steele designated her gift
to help restore Forest Theatre and Battle Park. To make sure we
have what we need to raise funds and participate in the upcom-ing
UNC campaign, Florence and Jim Peacock made another
contribution to build development capacity and opened their
lovely home to host a get-to-know-you party for our new direc-tor,
introducing Damon and his lovely wife, Sara, to the Botani-cal
Garden Foundation board and other Garden supporters.
Other donors made gifts that will continue to give in the
future: Oliver Orr, who for many years cared for the trails in
the Coker Pinetum, directed his gift to build the Natural Areas
Endowment. Charles and Nancy Norwood made their gift to
the Coker Arboretum Endowment, so that our campus garden
would always have the care it needs. Sandy Thompson, Edwin
and Harriet Poston, and others added their gifts to the grow-ing
endowment for Battle Park, where the beautiful Melinda
Kellner Brock Terrace will soon be complete.
This spring, several Garden members have let us know of
their plans to include the Garden in their wills so that their sup-port
will continue even after they are no longer here to help as
volunteers and sponsors.
With new leadership and energy, we are looking forward to
becoming an even better Conservation Garden and showplace
for native plants.
We are grateful for all of you who make it possible.
Dead Mule Club owner
David Robert presents
NCBG Director
Damon Waitt with a
shirt at the Dead Mule
Club fundraiser for
Coker Arboretum.
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Jenny Elder Fitch Lecture
Sunday, September 27, 2-4:45pm
The Living Landscape
Rebuilding Nature’s Relationships, Doug Tallamy
The Living Landscape:
Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden, Rick Darke
Tallamy will explain why plants evolved in concert with local animals to provide for
their needs, why these specialized relationships determine the stability of local food
webs, and why it is important to restore life to our residential properties. Then, Darke
with explore the richness of life through the richness of the landscape’s layers. From
ground cover to canopy, Darke will suggest ways to conserve, create, and manage
home gardens that are beautiful, diverse, joyfully livable, and double as homes for wild-life.
Book signing 1-1:45pm, prior to the lecture. Books for sale in our Garden
Shop. Free. Preregistration required.
In the Pegg Exhibit Hall
through June 14
Fragile Flora: North Carolina Rare Plants
by Torey Wahlstrom
G a r d e n H o u r s
Weekdays Year-round: 8 am – 5 pm
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Saturdays 9 am – 5 pm Saturdays 9 am – 6 pm
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